Author: Rachel G. Fuchs
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873957502
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers--up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents. Their chances of survival were slim, but with alterations in state policy, economic and medical development, and changing attitudes toward children and the family, their chances had significantly improved by the end of the century. Rachel Fuchs has drawn on newly discovered archival sources and previously untapped documents of the Paris foundling home in order to depict the actual conditions of abandoned children and to reveal the bureaucratic and political response. This study traces the evolution of French social policy from early attempts to limit welfare to later efforts to increase social programs and influence family life. Abandoned Children illuminates in detail the family life of nineteenth-century French poor. It shows how French social policy with respect to abandoned children sought to create an economically useful and politically neutral underclass out of a segment of the population that might otherwise have been an economic drain and a potential political threat.
Abandoned Children
Author: Rachel G. Fuchs
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873957502
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers--up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents. Their chances of survival were slim, but with alterations in state policy, economic and medical development, and changing attitudes toward children and the family, their chances had significantly improved by the end of the century. Rachel Fuchs has drawn on newly discovered archival sources and previously untapped documents of the Paris foundling home in order to depict the actual conditions of abandoned children and to reveal the bureaucratic and political response. This study traces the evolution of French social policy from early attempts to limit welfare to later efforts to increase social programs and influence family life. Abandoned Children illuminates in detail the family life of nineteenth-century French poor. It shows how French social policy with respect to abandoned children sought to create an economically useful and politically neutral underclass out of a segment of the population that might otherwise have been an economic drain and a potential political threat.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873957502
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers--up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents. Their chances of survival were slim, but with alterations in state policy, economic and medical development, and changing attitudes toward children and the family, their chances had significantly improved by the end of the century. Rachel Fuchs has drawn on newly discovered archival sources and previously untapped documents of the Paris foundling home in order to depict the actual conditions of abandoned children and to reveal the bureaucratic and political response. This study traces the evolution of French social policy from early attempts to limit welfare to later efforts to increase social programs and influence family life. Abandoned Children illuminates in detail the family life of nineteenth-century French poor. It shows how French social policy with respect to abandoned children sought to create an economically useful and politically neutral underclass out of a segment of the population that might otherwise have been an economic drain and a potential political threat.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office ...: vol. 21; ser. 3, additional lists; ser. 4, vols. 10 and 11]. 1880-1895
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
"Collection of incunabula and early medical prints in the library of the Surgeon-general's office, U.S. Army": Ser. 3, v. 10, p. 1415-1436.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Rapport fait au nom de la Commission chargée d'examiner
Author: France. Assemblée nationale (1871-1942). Sénat. Commission relative à la protection de l'enfance
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 2062
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 2062
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Rapport fait au nom de la Commission chargée d'examiner
Author: France. Assemblée nationale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Selling Mothers' Milk
Author: George D. Sussman
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Sozialgeschichte / Frankreich
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Sozialgeschichte / Frankreich
Rapport ... sur la proposition de loi de Th. Roussel relative à la protection des enfants du premier âge, et en particulier des nourrissons
Author: Théophile Roussel
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 224
Book Description
Rapport fait au̲ n̄om de la Commission̄ chargée d'examin̄er la proposition de loi de M. Théophile Roussel relative à la protection̄ des en̄f̄an̄ts du premier âge, et particu̲lier dēs n̄ou̲rrissons
Author: France. Assemblée nationale (1871-1942). Chambre des députés. Commission relative à la protection de l'enfance
Publisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : fr
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : fr
Pages : 224
Book Description