A home from home? : children and social care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1870-1920 / Claudia Soares.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soares, Claudia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Services for--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Children.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conceptual thinking about the history of children's care by investigating the centrality of key ideas about home, family, and nurture that shaped welfare provision for children at this time.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Prologue

Children's Welfare History

The Waifs and Strays Society

Sources and Methodology

Structure

1. A Substitute Family? Contracts, Authority, and Applications to Residential Care

Family Ideals in the Nineteenth Century

Representations of Poor Families

Creating the Institutional Family: WSS Authority and Parental Responsibility

Creating Stability in the Institutional Home

Conclusion

2. Creating an Institutional 'Family': Narratives of Affective Care and Attachment in Institutional Ideology

A Family United: Creating the Family Community

The Feel of Family: Affect and Attachment

Imagining Relatedness and the Extended Family

3. Neither Waif nor Stray: Tension, Conflict, and Negotiation over Children's Care

Children's Admission: Physical Distance from the Family

Maintaining Contact with Children

Removing Children from the Institution

4. Feeling at Home? Stability, Security, and Homeliness in the Children's Institution

Domestic Ideals: Comfort and Stability

Security and Authority in the Institution

Material Possessions, Individuality, and Identity

5. An Ideal Life for a Child? Children's Nurture and Family Time in the Institution

Nurturing Care: Ideals of Togetherness and Pleasure

Family-Time Rituals and Children's Treats

Engagements with Nature as a Nurturing Form

6. Transitions from Care: Aftercare and Support for Care Leavers

Aftercare Ideals: Friendship and Kindness

Ideals and Representations of Friendship and Support

Children's Experiences of Aftercare and Contact

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Plates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Soares, Claudia A Home from Home?

ISBN:

0-19-192392-3

0-19-265188-9

0-19-265187-0