Taylor and Francis Hendrick, H: Child Welfare

This work is concerned with the history of social policy and child welfare from the 1870s to the present. It offers a full narrative of the development of social services for children, covering a range of topics including infant life protection and welfare, sexuality, child guidance, medical treatment, war-time evacuation, and child poverty. Equally importantly, the book studies the attitudes of policy-makers towards children. It reveals the way in which children have been viewed both as victims of, and threats to, the society in which they are living. ...