ABSTRACT
Child Welfare 1872-1989 is the first comprehensive book on the history of social policy and child welfare from the 1870s to the present. It offers a full narrative of the development of social services for children, covering a range of topics including infant life protection and welfare, sexuality, child guidance, medical treatment, war time evacuation, and child poverty. Equally importantly the book studies the attitudes to policy-makers towards children. It reveals the way in which children have been viewed both as victims of and threats to the society in which they lived.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part I THE EMERGENCE OF THE CHILD c.1800–94
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Part II FROM RESCUE AND REFORM TO ‘CHILDREN OF THE NATION’ c.1872–1918
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Part III MINDS AND BODIES
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Part IV CHILDREN OF THE WELFARE STATE 1945–89