Raising Government Children : A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State /

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Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare p...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Rymph, Catherine E. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Public welfare.
Foster parents.
Foster home care > Government policy.
Foster home care.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Familles d'accueil > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Public welfare > United States > History > 20th century.
Foster parents > United States > History > 20th century.
Foster home care > Government policy > United States.
Foster home care > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Into the family life of strangers : the origins of foster family care
  • The New Deal, family security, and the emergence of a public child welfare system
  • Helping America's orphans of war
  • Providing love and care : foster parents as parents
  • The hard-to-place child : family pathology, race, and poverty
  • Compensated motherhood and the state : foster parents as workers
  • Poverty, punishment, and public assistance : reorienting foster family care.

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