The Slow Evolution of Foster Care in Australia Just Like a Family? /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Musgrove, Nell (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Michell, Deidre (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
• Θέματα: Islands of the Pacific-History.; Social history.; History, Modern.; World history.; Social policy.; Australasian History.; Social History.; Modern History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.

This book draws on archival, oral history and public policy sources to tell a history of foster care in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present day. It is, primarily, a social history which places the voices of people directly touched by foster care at the centre of the story, but also...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: There is no typical story of foster care
• Part I: Looking for the 'care' in foster care
• 2. Did anybody care? The death of John Wood Pledger
• 3. Making and breaking families
• 4. Remembering and forgetting foster care
• 5. They're just doing it for the money
• Part II: Shaping the lives of the invisible children of the state
• 6. Foster care-philosophies, rhetoric and practices
• 7. Rediscovering foster care
• 8. Writing to heal-the emergence of foster care in literature
• 9. Are we getting better at this?
• 10. Conclusion: What can history tell us about the future of foster care?
• Index.