A Home for Every Child

The Washington Children's Home Society in the Progressive Era

• Author(s): Patricia Susan Hart,
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Pages: 285
• ISBN_10: 0295990643
  ISBN_13: 9780295990644
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / General , Family & Relationships / Adoption & Fostering , History / United States / 19th Century , History / United States / 20th Century , History / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA) , Social Science / Children's Studies ,

Description:... Adoption has been a politically charged subject since the Progressive Era, when it first became an established part of child welfare reform over one hundred years ago. In A Home for Every Child, Patricia Susan Hart looks at how, when, and why modern adoption practices became a part of child welfare policy.