Poor Relations: The Children of the State in Illinois, 1818-1990 - Softcover

Gittens, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252064119 ISBN 13: 9780252064111

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1994

Synopsis

 
       This 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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This 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0252064119
• ISBN 13: 9780252064111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312