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Raising government children : a history of foster care and the American welfare state / Catherine E. Rymph.

By: Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]Description: xiv, 252 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781469635637 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781469635644 (pbk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.73/309730904 23
LOC classification:
  • HV881 .R95 2017
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HV881 .R95 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001456416

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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