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Family matters : child welfare in twentieth-century New Zealand
- Title
- Family matters : child welfare in twentieth-century New Zealand / Bronwyn Dalley.
- Author
- Dalley, Bronwyn, 1963-
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press in association with the Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HV802.5 .D35 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch.
- Description
- viii, 447 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Traces the changes in government child welfare services from 1902 until 1992"--Back cover.
- Alternative Title
- Child welfare in twentieth-century New Zealand
- Subject
- New Zealand. Children, Young Persons & Their Families Service
- 1900-1999
- Child welfare > New Zealand > History > 20th century
- Family policy > New Zealand > History > 20th century
- Child Welfare > history
- Family Health > history
- Politique familiale > Nouvelle-Zélande > Histoire > 20e siècle
- Child welfare
- Family policy
- Familjepolitik > Nya Zeeland > 1900-talet
- New Zealand
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-439) and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. 'Humanity and national efficiency': the emergence of a child welfare system, 1902-1925. -- 1. Control, reformation and protection: the basis of child welfare -- 2. Towards the Child Welfare Act 1925 -- pt. II. 'Social readjustment': the work of the Child Welfare Branch, 1925-1948 -- 3. To train, rather than to punish: children's courts, supervision and residential institutions -- 4. 'Saved to the State': preventive child welfare -- pt. III. Recording 'the history of social breakdown': from child welfare to social welfare, 1948-1972 -- 5. 'That disagreeable term "teenagers"': juvenile delinquency and its prevention -- 6. 'Deprived of a normal home life': ex-nuptial births, adoption, foster care, and child abuse -- pt. IV. Child-focused, family-centred: changing philosophies and practices, 1972-1992 -- 7. 'A new language': youth justice and residential institutions -- 8. 'Family solutions to family problems': care and protection matters.
- ISBN
- 1869401905 (pbk.)
- 9781869401900 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 98198082
- OCLC
- ocm41348800
- 41348800
- SCSB-1243637
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library