Author: United States. Children's Bureau
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Children's Bureau Publication
Author: United States. Children's Bureau
Publisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Raising Government Children
Author: Catherine E. Rymph
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of "welfare" that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents' relationship to public welfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today's child support networks.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of "welfare" that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents' relationship to public welfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today's child support networks.
Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau). no. 124, 1923
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau). no. 166, 1926
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau). no. 60, 1919
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Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Infant Care
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Category : Infants
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Category : Infants
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau). no. 147, 1925
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau). no. 19, 1917
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau). no. 15, 1917
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Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Making an Issue of Child Abuse
Author: Barbara J. Nelson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022622001X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue. Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the public agenda. This issue of child abuse, she argues, clearly reveals the scope and limitations of social change initiated through interest-group politics. Unfortunately, the process that transforms an issue into a popular cause, Nelson concludes, brings about programs that ultimately address only the symptoms and not the roots of such social problems.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022622001X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue. Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the public agenda. This issue of child abuse, she argues, clearly reveals the scope and limitations of social change initiated through interest-group politics. Unfortunately, the process that transforms an issue into a popular cause, Nelson concludes, brings about programs that ultimately address only the symptoms and not the roots of such social problems.