CHILD WELFARE

What affects children’s well-being and the intervention of different authorities in that well-being?

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Best, Joel. 1990. Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Carp, Wayne. 1998. Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Cmiel, Kenneth. 1995. A Home of Another Kind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Gordon, Linda. 1999. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Hays, Sharon. 1997. “Ideology of Intensive Mothering: A Cultural Analysis of the Bestselling ‘Gurus’ of Appropriate Childbearing.” Pp. 286-321 in From Sociology to Cultural Studies: New Perspectives, edited by Elizabeth Long. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Hernandez, Donald J. 1993. America’s Children: Resources from Family,

Government, and the Economy. New York: Russell Sage.

Katz, Michael B. 1986. In the Shadow of the Poorhouse. New York: Basic Books. Chapter 5, “Saving Children.”

Mayall, Barry. 1994. Negotiating Health: Primary School Children at Home and School. London, UK: Cassell Publishers.

McGillivray, Anne. 1997. Governing Childhood. Bookfield, VT: Dartmouth

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Michel, Sonya. 1999. Children’s Interests/Mothers’ Rights. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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O’Neill, John. 2000. “Cultural Capitalism and Child Formation.” Pp. 79-98 in The New Citizenship of the Family, edited by Henry Cavanna. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company.

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Rose, Elizabeth. 1999. A Mother’s Job: The History of Day Care 1890-1960. New York: Oxford University Press.

Schneider, Eric C. 1992. In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810-1930s. New York: New York University Press.

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Straus, Murray A. 1994. Beating the Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment in American Families. New York: Lexington Books.

Sutton, John R. 1988. Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Westman, Jack C. 1996. “The Rationale and Feasibility of Licensing Parents.” Society 34: 46-52.

Wintersberger, Helmut. 2000. “Family Citizenship or Citizenship for Children? Childhood Perspectives and Policies.” Pp. 174-188 in The New Citizenship of the Family, edited by Henry Cavanna. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company.

Wright, James D., Joseph F. Sheley, and M. Dwayne Smith. 1992. “Kids, Guns, and Killing Fields.” Society 30: 84-9.