Patricia Susan Hart

A Home for Every Child

The Washington Children's Home Society in the Progressive Era

• Broschiertes Buch

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 and 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.

Produktdetails

• Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and BiographyEmil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and BiographyEmil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biograph
• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780295990644
• ISBN-10: 0295990643
• Artikelnr.: 29977495

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