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A Home of Another Kind: One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare

Door Kenneth Cmiel

Categorie	Psychologie
Boeknummer	#384480-UE14
Titel	A Home of Another Kind: One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare
Auteur	Cmiel, Kenneth
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Chcago/London : University of Chicago Press
Jaar van uitgave	1995
ISBN10	0226110842
ISBN13	9780226110844
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In the most comprehensive account ever written of an American orphanage, an institution about which even its many new advocates and experts know little, Kenneth Cmiel exposes America's changing attitudes toward child welfare. The book begins with the fascinating history of the Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum from 1860 through 1984, when it became a full-time research institute. Founded by a group of wealthy volunteers, the asylum was a Protestant institution for Protestant children—one of dozens around the country designed as places where single parents could leave their children if they were temporarily unable to care for them. But the asylum, which later became known as Chapin Hall, changed dramatically over the years as it tried to respond to changing policies, priorities, ... (Lees verder)regulations, and theories concerning child welfare. Cmiel offers a vivid portrait of how these changes affected the day-to-day realities of group living. How did the kind of care given to the children change? What did the staff and management hope to accomplish? How did they define "family"? Who were the children who lived in the asylum? What brought them there? What were their needs? How did outside forces change what went on inside Chapin Hall? This is much more than a richly detailed account of one institution. Cmiel shatters a number of popular myths about orphanages. Few realize that almost all children living in nineteenth-century orphanages had at least one living parent. And the austere living conditions so characteristic of the orphanage were prompted as much by health concerns as by strict Victorian morals.
Pagina's	243
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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