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9780415972611

Parenting for the State: An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415972611

  • ISBN10:

    0415972612

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-06-24
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system. The author concludes that the problems of the system result less from uncommitted service providers, and more from the competing cultural rationales and complex bureaucratic environment that set the context under which care is administered.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Chapter One Introduction: The State as Parent 1(20)
Chapter Two The Context of Foster Care Policy and Practice 21(18)
Chapter Three Foster Care through Expert Eyes 39(26)
Chapter Four Money, Meaning, and Mothering: The Multiple Motivations of Foster Parent Carework 65(22)
Chapter Five Negotiating "Hope": The Challenges of State Supervised Parenting 87(16)
Chapter Six Caring Professionals and Professional Caring 103(18)
Chapter Seven The Perils and Promises of Privatization 121(24)
Chapter Eight Foster Care and the Welfare State in Ethnographic Perspective 145(10)
Notes 155(2)
Bibliography 157(6)
Index 163

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