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Fostering on the Farm : Child Placement in the Rural Midwest /
From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with farming families. The farmers received free labor in return for providing room and board. Reformers, meanwhile, believed children learned lessons in family life, citi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Search for a Home; 1. The Rural Ideal: Constructing a Myth; 2. "Qualify them for the duties of life"; 3. "The hideous consequences"; Illustrations; 4. "The right of the state to interfere is unquestioned"; 5. The Farm, the Federal Government, and the Decline of Placement; Epilogue: "The great drama of childhood"; Notes; Bibliography; Index.