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| List of Tables | |
| List of Figures and Maps | |
| List of Illustrations | |
| Preface | |
| Social Problems and Social Welfare Until the Restoration | |
| Medieval and Early Modern Child Welfare | |
| The Eighteenth Century | |
| Provisions for Care of Abandoned Children | |
| State Assumption of Responsibility | |
| Policies, Codes, and Decrees | |
| Conclusion: Child Abandonment by 1815 | |
| Attitudes and Public Policy Toward the Family | |
| Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Parentage | |
| Foundation of the System, 1811-1830 | |
| The July Monarchy and the "Social Question": Theory | |
| The "Social Question": Reality | |
| Further Efforts to Restrain Abandonment, 1850-1870 | |
| Beginning of Concern for the Children, 1850-1870 | |
| The Third Republic: Mothers and Children, 1870-1904 | |
| The Third Republic: Public Policy, 1870-1904 | |
| Conclusion: Responsibility | |
| Mothers and Their Babies | |
| The Children Abandoned: Their Age, Sex, and Legitimacy | |
| The Effect of Rules and Regulations on Abandonment | |
| The Mothers | |
| Motives for Child Abandonment | |
| Mothers' Alternatives | |
| How Mothers Abandoned their Children | |
| Conclusion: Maternal Love | |
| In the Hospice | |
| Functioning of the Hospice: Administration and Admissions Procedures | |
| Functioning of the Hospice: Initial Care of the Children | |
| Conditions in the Hospice | |
| Infant Feeding | |
| Death in the Hospice | |
| Hospice to Hospital | |
| Conclusion: Budgets not Babies | |
| Spreading the Wealth | |
| Fiscal and Administrative Apparatus | |
| Recruitment of Wet Nurses | |
| Geographical Distribution of Wet Nurses | |
| Transportation of Wet Nurses | |
| The Wet Nurses' Backgrounds | |
| Conclusion: Objects of the System | |
| Chez la Nourrice | |
| Enfants Perdus-Infant Mortality | |
| Effect of Travel on Mortality | |
| Living Conditions Chez la Nourrice: Housing and Hygiene | |
| Living Conditions Chez la Nourrice: Clothing | |
| Living Conditions Chez la Nourrice: Attention and Neglect | |
| Living Conditions Chez la Nourrice: Food | |
| Inspection and Medical Care Chez la Nourrice: | |
| Conclusion: Improved Conditions | |
| Survivors: The Older Children and Young Adults | |
| Parental Reclamation of the Children | |
| Children and Young Adults with their Foster Parents | |
| Incurably Infirm or Disabled Children and Young Adults | |
| Secular and Religious Education | |
| Vocational Training, Agricultural Labor, and Apprenticeship | |
| Military Service | |
| Marriage | |
| Deviant and Criminal Behavior | |
| Conclusion: Bonds of Affection | |
| General Conclusion | |
| Decree of January 19, 1811 | |
| Deliberation of January 25, 1837 | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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