Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Author: Jon Lawrence

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780853236863

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This collection of twelve essays represents an important contribution to the understanding of child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They challenge many assumptions about the history of childhood and child welfare policy and cover a variety of themes including the physical and sexual abuse of children, forced child migration and role of the welfare state.

Imagined Orphans
Imagined Orphans

Author: Lydia Murdoch

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0813537223

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"In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions - a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers' efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or "no-good" parents fed upon the poor's increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public's growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children. With a critical eye to social issues of the period, Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the complex situations of families living in poverty."--BOOK JACKET.