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Fostering on the Farm - Child Placement in the Rural Midwest (Hardcover)
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Fostering on the Farm - Child Placement in the Rural Midwest (Hardcover)
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From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place
children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with
farming families. The farmers received free labor in return for
providing room and board. Reformers, meanwhile, believed children
learned lessons in family life, citizenry, and work habits that
institutions simply could not provide. Drawing on institution
records, correspondence from children and placement families, and
state reports, Megan Birk scrutinizes how the farm system
developed--and how the children involved may have become some of
America's last indentured laborers. Between 1850 and 1900, up to
one-third of farm homes contained children from outside the family.
Birk reveals how the nostalgia attached to misplaced perceptions
about healthy, family-based labor masked the realities of abuse,
overwork, and loveless upbringings endemic in the system. She also
considers how rural people cared for their own children while being
bombarded with dependents from elsewhere. Finally, Birk traces how
the ills associated with rural placement eventually forced
reformers to transition to a system of paid foster care, adoptions,
and family preservation.
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