Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France

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By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer offers a fresh perspective on the self-fashioning of a new governmental order. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, social ref...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schafer, Sylvia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Paternalism.
Moral conditions.
Family policy.
Child welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Paternalisme > France > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Politique familiale > France > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Paternalism > France > History > 19th century.
Family policy > France > History > 19th century.
Child welfare > France > History > 19th century.
France.
France > Moral conditions > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer offers a fresh perspective on the self-fashioning of a new governmental order. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, social reformers claimed that children were increasingly the victims of their parents' immorality. Schafer examines how government officials codified these claims in the period between 1871 and 1914 and made the moral status of the family the focus of new kinds of legislative, juridical, and administrative action.
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9781400872992

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