Poor Relations: The Children of the State in Illinois, 1818-1990This comprehensive history traces the care of dependent, delinquent, and disabled children in Illinois from the early nineteenth century to current times, focusing on the dilemmas raised by both public intervention and the lack of it. Joan Gittens explores the inadequacies of a system that has allowed problems in the public care of children to recur regularly but at the same time insists that the state's own history makes it clear that the potential for improvements exists. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Dependent Children | 13 |
Minimal Offerings 181899 | 15 |
Extending the Boundaries of Care 18991950 | 35 |
Coherence and Crisis 195090 | 60 |
Children in Trouble with the Law | 87 |
Defining Delinquency 181899 | 89 |
Establishing the Juvenile Court 18991925 | 105 |
Disabled Children | 159 |
From Hope to Fear 183899 | 161 |
Optimism Reborn 19001940 | 185 |
Progress for Handicapped Children 194090 | 206 |
Conclusion | 234 |
Notes | 239 |
Bibliographic Essay | 271 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poor Relations: The Children of the State in Illinois, 1818-1990 Poor Relations: The Children of the State in Illinois, 1818-1990, Joan Gittens |
| Author | Joan Gittens |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0252064119, 9780252064111 |
| Length | 295 pages |
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