TY - BOOK AU - Rymph,Catherine E. TI - Raising government children: a history of foster care and the American welfare state SN - 9781469635637 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - HV881 .R95 2017 U1 - 362.73/309730904 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Foster home care KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Government policy KW - Foster parents KW - Public welfare N1 - 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 ER -