TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rymph,Catherine E.
TI  - Raising government children: a history of foster care and the American welfare state 
SN  - 9781469635651
AV  - HV881 .R357 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Foster home care
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Foster parents
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2017; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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