Rymph, Catherine E., <br/><br/>
Raising government children :  a history of foster care and the American welfare state / 
Catherine E. Rymph. 
 - Chapel Hill :  The University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource :  illustrations (black and white) 
<br/><br/> Previously issued in print: 2017. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Into the family life of strangers : the origins of foster family care --  The New Deal, family security, and the emergence of a public child welfare system --  Helping America's orphans of war --  Providing love and care : foster parents as parents --  The hard-to-place child : family pathology, race, and poverty --  Compensated motherhood and the state : foster parents as workers --  Poverty, punishment, and public assistance : reorienting foster family care. 
<br/><br/> Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fuelled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469635651 9781469635668 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Foster home care--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Foster home care--Government policy--United States.<br/>Foster parents--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Public welfare--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV881  / .R357 2018