Author : Jon Lawrence
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780853236764
Recent historical work has done much to focus attention on changing conceptions of children's rights during the 19th and 20th centuries. These essays address a variety of themes including the abuse of children, and the role of the welfare state.
Author : Jon Lawrence
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1781386323
This collection of twelve essays represents an important contribution to the understanding of child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They challenge many assumptions about the history of childhood and child welfare policy and cover a variety of themes including the physical and sexual abuse of children, forced child migration and role of the welfare state.
Author : Gordon Lynch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Child care
ISBN : 3030697282
This open access book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy debates about the care of children. Between 1945 and 1970, an estimated 3,500 children were sent from Britain to Australia, unaccompanied by their parents, through child migration schemes funded by the Australian and British Governments and delivered by churches, religious orders and charities. Functioning in a wider history of the migration of unaccompanied children to overseas British colonies, the post-war schemes to Australia have become the focus of public attention through a series of public reports in Britain and Australia that have documented the harm they caused to many child migrants. Whilst addressing the wide range of organisations involved, the book focuses particularly on knowledge, assumptions and decisions within UK Government Departments and asks why these schemes continued to operate in the post-war period despite often failing to adhere to standards of child-care set out in the influential 1946 Curtis Report. Some factors such as the tensions between British policy on child-care and assisted migration are unique to these schemes. However, the book also examines other factors such as complex government systems, fragmented lines of departmental responsibility and civil service cultures that may contribute to the failure of vulnerable people across a much wider range of policy contexts.
Author : Tara Zahra
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0674061373
During the Second World War, an unprecedented number of families were torn apart. As the Nazi empire crumbled, millions roamed the continent in search of their loved ones. The Lost Children tells the story of these families, and of the struggle to determine their fate. We see how the reconstruction of families quickly became synonymous with the survival of European civilization itself. Even as Allied officials and humanitarian organizations proclaimed a new era of individualist and internationalist values, Tara Zahra demonstrates that they defined the “best interests” of children in nationalist terms. Sovereign nations and families were seen as the key to the psychological rehabilitation of traumatized individuals and the peace and stability of Europe. Based on original research in German, French, Czech, Polish, and American archives, The Lost Children is a heartbreaking and mesmerizing story. It brings together the histories of eastern and western Europe, and traces the efforts of everyone—from Jewish Holocaust survivors to German refugees, from Communist officials to American social workers—to rebuild the lives of displaced children. It reveals that many seemingly timeless ideals of the family were actually conceived in the concentration camps, orphanages, and refugee camps of the Second World War, and shows how the process of reconstruction shaped Cold War ideologies and ideas about childhood and national identity. This riveting tale of families destroyed by war reverberates in the lost children of today’s wars and in the compelling issues of international adoption, human rights and humanitarianism, and refugee policies.
Author : DR CAROLINE. RUSTERHOLZ
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2024-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0192866273
This book offers a historical account of the public debates, institutional monitoring, and private experiences of youth sexuality in Britain between the 1960s to the 1990s. It uses the Brook Advisory Centre--a leading sexual health charity--as a case study to explore the changing British landscape of sexual politics during this period.
Author : Ellen Boucher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107041384
A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s.
Author : Paula S. Fass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0415782325
The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadly incorporating the research in the field of Childhood Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in this crucial field. This important collection from a leading international group of scholars presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field. It will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of childhood.
Author : Claudia Soares
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2023-02-08
Category :
ISBN : 0192897470
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.
Author : Hugh Cunningham
Publisher : Random House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1446416151
The Invention of Childhood will paint a vivid picture of the lives of children in Britain from pagan Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Drawing heavily on primary sources, such as diaries, autobiographies, paintings, photographs and letters, the book will present a complete chronological history of the experience of children in Britain during the past 1500 years. We will learn the key elements that have shaped their lives down the ages and how this has differed as a result of gender, geography and ethnicity. The book will also relate children's lives to larger events in national and international history. Written by Hugh Cunningham the Professor of History at the Universtity of Kent at Canterbury, and an expert on childhood history - the book will accompany the Radio 4 series presented by the highly respected children's author Michael Morpurgo. Michael is contributing a lengthy foreword to the book. 'The Invention of Childhood' will expand on a number of key themes from the radio series, including the idea of childhood as a distinct stage of life. Opinions on when childhood should start and end, and how it differs from adulthood have changed considerably down the centuries. And these inventions and reinventions of childhood (hence the title) have had a profound effect on children's lives. The prolonged childhood we enjoy in Britain today was a luxury few could afford in the past. This fascinating study will draw attention to the ways in which we may find childhood and children in the past quite similar to the present and to ways in which childrens lives from the past seem to differ sharply from the lives children lead today.
Author : H. Ellis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137349522
This volume brings together a wide range of case studies from across the globe, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, to explore the complex ways in which historical understandings of childhood and juvenile delinquency have been constructed in a global context.
