Home for Every Child - The Washington Children''s Home Society in the Progressive Era

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Susan Hart Klappentext Adoption has been a politically charged subject since the Progressive Era, when it first became an established part of child welfare reform over one hundred years ago. In A Home for Every Child , Patricia Susan Hart looks at how, when, and why modern adoption practices became a part of child welfare policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Taking a Chance on the Pacific Northwest 1. Seeking Alternatives to Institutional Care 2. Child Relinquishment: The Last Best Hope 3. Sorted, Boarded, and Reformed: Coming into the Care of WCHS 4. Completing God's Plan and Competing Desires: Negotiating Adoptive Parenthood 5. Biology, Botany, and Belonging 6. Traveling Children: Placement, Re-placement, and Return Conclusion: A Home for Every Child : The Elusive Promise Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Patricia Susan Hart
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780295996844
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99684-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography; Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography; Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Se; Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography; Emil and Kathleen Sick Book We
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous