Title:
Raising government children : a history of foster care and the American welfare state / Catherine E. Rymph.
Author:
Rymph, Catherine E., author.
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Call Number:
HV881 .R95 2017
ISBN:
9781469635637
9781469635644
Physical Description:
xiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
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