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A Child for KeepsSetting the Scene: The Historical and Legal Background

A Child for Keeps: Setting the Scene: The Historical and Legal Background [The campaign for legalised adoption after the First World War and during the 1920s emerged against a background of considerable change in the shape of the family and in public and private attitudes towards children and their upbringing and protection. This chapter looks at these changes and also offers a brief historical account of the legal position of children prior to the Adoption of Children Act 1926. Finally the legal and social position of illegitimate children and their mothers at the beginning of the twentieth century is considered.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Child for KeepsSetting the Scene: The Historical and Legal Background

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
ISBN
978-1-349-35555-6
Pages
11 –38
DOI
10.1057/9780230582842_2
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Abstract

[The campaign for legalised adoption after the First World War and during the 1920s emerged against a background of considerable change in the shape of the family and in public and private attitudes towards children and their upbringing and protection. This chapter looks at these changes and also offers a brief historical account of the legal position of children prior to the Adoption of Children Act 1926. Finally the legal and social position of illegitimate children and their mothers at the beginning of the twentieth century is considered.]

Published: Oct 15, 2015

Keywords: Child Welfare; Foster Parent; Housing Satisfaction; Unmarried Mother; Interwar Period

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