Raising government children : a history of foster care and the American welfare state / Catherine E. Rymph.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]Description: xiv, 252 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781469635637 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781469635644 (pbk : alk. paper)
- 362.73/309730904 23
- HV881 .R95 2017
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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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