ISBN:
9780192651884
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (236 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
362.7094109034
Keywords:
Children-Services for-Great Britain-History-19th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates.
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