Minding the Children: Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Book Review.

Hawes, Joseph M.

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ERIC Number: EJ529881

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Publication Date: 1996

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Minding the Children: Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Book Review.

Hawes, Joseph M.

Dimensions of Early Childhood, v24 n3 p30-31 Sum 1996

Describes the book by Geraldine Youcha as uncovering recurring patterns in American efforts to care for neglected and destitute children. Discusses the book's six chapters, which cover child care on antebellum plantations, 19th-century utopias, the difficulties faced by immigrant women with children, and issues in contemporary child care. (BGC)

Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Caregivers, Child Neglect, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Immigration, Social History, Transient Children, United States History

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Book/Product Reviews; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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