Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-241) and index.
Contents
Old solutions, new circumstances, 1607-1800 -- The rise of Antebellum congregate institutions -- "Placing out": orphan trains, foster homes, and adoption -- Discovering cruelty and building more asylums in the late nineteenth century -- Innovation, tradition, and progressive-era "child saving" -- The issues fade, 1920-1960 -- Children's issues as battleground, 1960-1980 -- Continuing battles, tragedies, crisis: the 1980s and 1990s.
