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A Home for Every Child: The Washington Children’s Home Society in the Progressive Era (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)

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Adoption has been a politically charged subject for the reason that Progressive Era, when it first became an established part of child welfare reform. In A Home for Each and every Child, Patricia Susan Hart looks at how, when, and why brand new adoption practices became part of child welfare policy.

The Washington Children’s Home Society (now the Children’s Home Society of Washington) used to be founded in 1896 to place children into adoptive and foster homes as a means of dealing with child abuse, neglect, and homelessness. Hart reveals why birth parents relinquished their children to the Society, how adoptive parents embraced these vulnerable members of the family, and how the children adjusted to their new homes among strangers.

Debates about nature as opposed to nurture, fears about immigration, and anxieties about race and class informed child welfare policy all through the Progressive Era. Hart sheds new light on that time period and the social, cultural, and political factors that affected adopted children, their parents, and administrators of pioneering institutions like the Washington Children’s Home Society.

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