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A History of Child Welfare (Hardcover)
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A History of Child Welfare (Hardcover)
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As we approach the year 2000, infant mortality rates, child
placement dilemmas, and appropriate socialization of children
continue to challenge the field of child welfare. It is thus
especially significant to reflect on the history of child welfare.
The carefully selected topics explored in this volume underscore
the importance of recovering past events and themes still relevant.
It is the aim of this volume to illumine current issues by a review
of past struggles and problems. A History of Child Welfare offers
many examples of practices that have direct import for those who
struggle to support children. Who is not bothered by what seem to
be increasing acts of violence by children against children? The
role of hidden cruelty to children in perpetuating violence is
illuminated by studying the past. Historians and social researchers
have gone far in examining the family, and by implication, their
revelations greatly increase society's complex responses to
children over time from early assumptions that children were little
more than miniature adults to the discovery of childhood as a
special developmental period. At the start of this century women
still did not have universal suffrage and brutal child labor was
not unusual. Harsh legal codes separating the races were
widespread, and those bent on improving the lot of children knew
that reform meant commitment to an uphill struggle. By the end of
the century, much has changed: child labor, while still present,
has been outlawed in most industries, women vote and hold many high
offices; and de jure racial segregation is largely a memory. Yet
the state of children remains precarious, with poverty a persistent
theme throughout the century. The fifteen articles in this volume
cover a wide range of social conditions, public policies, and
approaches to problem solving. Though history does not repeat
itself precisely, problems, controversies about solutions, and
certain themes do. A History of Child Welfare takes up social and
economic conditions that correlate with increasing rates of child
abuse and neglect, and an increasing number of children in
out-of-home care. This volume distinguishes approaches that have
been useful from those that have failed. In this way, these serious
reflections help build on past successes and avoid previous errors.
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