Fostering Nation?

by Strong-Boag, Veronica

• ISBN13: 9781554582549
• ISBN10: 1554582547
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

Summary

The first comprehensive perspective on Canada's provision for marginalized youngsters from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. It's examination of kin care, institutions, state policies, birth parents, foster parents, and foster youngsters provides ample reminder that children's welfare cannot be divorced from that of their parents and communities

Author Biography

Varonica Strong-Boag is a professor of women's and gender studies and of educational studies at the University of British Columbia. She has written widely on the history of Canadian woman and children and has won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize in Canadian History and, with Carole Gerson, the Raymond Klibansky Prize in the Humanities. She is the co-editor, with Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, of Children's Health Issues in Historical Perspective (WLU Press, 2005).

Table of Contents

Acknowldgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Claiming Kinship	p. 11
"It was an evil place. It was a beautiful place": Institutions for Children	p. 35
Begining the Search for Best Interest: Child Protection Considers Fostering from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s	p. 65
Still Searching for Best Interest: Child Protection and Fostering from the 1960s to the Present	p. 91
First Families and the Dilemma of Care	p. 115
Negotiating Surrogacy: The Construction of Foster Parents	p. 143
"Dear Mom and Dad": Canada's Children	p. 173
Conclusion	p. 201
Notes	p. 207
Selected Bibliography	p. 259
Index	p. 295
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