| Description |
viii, 447 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Family Matters traces the changes in government child welfare services from 1902 until 1992, when the New Zealand Children and Young Persons Service began. It explores all aspects of child welfare services, including juvenile delinquency, youth justice, foster care, adoption, residential care, and child abuse. These services are a unique form of social welfare which has little in common with the benefits and pensions which characterise other areas of New Zealand's welfare state. By using government policy documents and personal case files, Bronwyn Dalley combines an analysis of child welfare policy with an examination of its effects on children and families |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-439) and index |
| Subject |
New Zealand. Children, Young Persons & Their Families Service.
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Child welfare -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century.
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Family policy -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
New Zealand. Historical Branch
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| LC no. |
98198082 |
| ISBN |
1869401905 |
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