Patricia Susan Hart

A Home for Every Child (eBook, PDF)

The Washington Children's Home Society in the Progressive Era

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295802039
• Artikelnr.: 44784840

Autorenporträt

Patricia Susan Hart is associate professor of journalism and American studies at the University of Idaho.

Inhaltsangabe

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