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Raising government children : a history of foster care and the American welfare state / Catherine E. Rymph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rymph, Catherine E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foster home care--United States--History--20th century.
- Foster home care.
- Foster home care--Government policy--United States.
- Foster parents--United States.
- Foster parents.
- Foster home care--Government policy.
- History.
- United States.
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 252 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Into the family life of strangers : the origins of foster family care
- The New Deal, family security, and the emergence of a public child welfare system
- Helping America's orphans of war
- Providing love and care : foster parents as parents
- The hard-to-place child : family pathology, race, and poverty
- Compensated motherhood and the state : foster parents as workers
- Poverty, punishment, and public assistance : reorienting foster family care.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469635637
- 1469635631
- 9781469635644
- 146963564X
- OCLC:
- 975491146
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