Minding the Children: Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the PresentHachette Books, 28 avr. 2009 - 448 pages Beyond childcare theories and early childhood gurus, here is how children have actually been raised in America over the last four centuries. From wet nurses and Southern mammys, settlement houses and orphan trains, to rigid British nannies, foster care, and the modern two-worker family, Geraldine Youcha's delightful book paints a wide-ranging picture of American childhood. In this updated paperback edition a lively new chapter brings the story through current childcare wars and present economic realities. All in all, it is a reassuring picture, for despite a bewildering array of different styles and fads, children have survived and often thrived. While there are some harsh lessons to be learned here, there is also plenty to lend optimism and help anxious parents relax. |
Table des matières
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The Mammy the Nurse and the Planters Wife | 45 |
The NineteenthCentury Vision | 67 |
The New Immigrants | 115 |
The Rich and Not So Rich Between the Wars | 211 |
Foster Care in the Depression | 275 |
Rosie the Riveter and Her Sisters | 307 |
Child Care Revisited in the TwentyFirst Century | 336 |
NOTES | 365 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 389 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Minding the Children: Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present Geraldine Youcha Affichage d'extraits - 1995 |
Minding the Children: Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present Geraldine Youcha Affichage d'extraits - 1995 |
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Page 36 - I was continually wishing for some opportunity of shortening it, which at length offered in a manner unexpected. (I fancy his harsh and tyrannical treatment of me might be a means of impressing me with that aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to me through my whole life...
Page 38 - I thought he demean'd me too much in some he requir'd of me, who from a brother expected more indulgence. Our disputes were often brought before our father, and I fancy I was either generally in the right, or else a better pleader, because the judgment was generally in my favor.
Page 36 - Astonishment, and hardly able to beleeve that the Child could do so base a Thing, but beleeving that they will never do it again. I would never come, to give a child a Blow; except in Case of Obstinacy: or some gross Enormity.
Page 21 - Be it therefore enacted that where persons bring up their children in such gross ignorance that they do not know or are not able to distinguish the alphabet or twenty-four letters, at the age of six years, in such case, the overseers of the poor are hereby empowered and directed to put or bind out into good families such children, for a decent and Christian education...