LEADER 03904cam a2200505 i 4500001 262139 005 20240621200736.0 008 180228s2017 ncua b s001 0 eng 010 2017015700 020 9781469635637 |q(hardcover |qalkaline paper) 020 1469635631 |q(hardcover |qalkaline paper) 020 9781469635644 |q(paperback |qalkaline paper) 020 146963564X |q(paperback |qalkaline paper) 020 |z9781469635651 |q(electronic book) 035 (OCoLC)ocn975491146 035 262139 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 LHMA 040 NcU/DLC |beng |erda |cNOC |dDLC |dBTCTA |dYDX |dOCLCO |dBDX |dOCLCF |dYDX |dUIN |dTFW |dOCLCQ |dGYG |dLHM 050 00 HV881 |b.R95 2017 100 1 Rymph, Catherine E., |eauthor. 245 10 Raising government children : |ba history of foster care and the American welfare state / |cCatherine E. Rymph. 264 1 Chapel Hill : |bThe University of North Carolina Press, |c[2017] 300 xiv, 252 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Into the family life of strangers : the origins of foster family care -- The New Deal, family security, and the emergence of a public child welfare system -- Helping America's orphans of war -- Providing love and care : foster parents as parents -- The hard-to-place child : family pathology, race, and poverty -- Compensated motherhood and the state : foster parents as workers -- Poverty, punishment, and public assistance : reorienting foster family care. 520 In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of "welfare" that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents' relationship to public warfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today's child support networks. -- from back cover. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Foster home care |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Foster home care |xGovernment policy |zUnited States. 650 0 Foster parents |zUnited States. 650 0 Public welfare |zUnited States. 650 7 Foster home care. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00933198 650 7 Foster home care |xGovernment policy. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00933205 650 7 Foster parents. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00933230 650 7 Public welfare. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01083250 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 650 7 Foster parents. |2homoit 852 0 |bstacks |hHV881 |i.R95 2017