TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lafferty,Renée
TI  - The Guardianship of Best Interests: Institutional Care for the Children of the Poor in Halifax, 1850-1960
T2  - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion Series
SN  - 9780773587946
AV  - HV866 .C36 2013 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Poor children-Institutional care-Nova Scotia-Halifax-History-19th century-Case studies
KW  - Poor children-Institutional care-Nova Scotia-Halifax-History-20th century-Case studies
KW  - Urban poor-Institutional care-Nova Scotia-Halifax-History-19th century-Case studies
KW  - Urban poor-Institutional care-Nova Scotia-Halifax-History-20th century-Case studies
KW  - Institutional care-Nova Scotia-Halifax-History-20th century-Case studies
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations and Graphs -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 - "We Need No Reform" The Organization of Local Services and Administrative Innovation, c. 1850-1924 -- 2 - Race Uplift, Racism, and the Childhood Ideal Founding and Funding the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children -- 3 - The Unremitting Exercise of Watchfulness Institutional Environments, Routines, and Practices -- 4 - "Out of Mutual Respect Will Come Mutual Responsibility" Coordinating Services and Promoting Interagency Cooperation after World War One -- 5 - Managing "High Standards of Professional Ethics" Institutionalization, Gwendolen Lantz, and the Emergence of the "Modern" Children's Home, c. 1940-1952 -- 6 - From Protection to Treatment Group Care and the Transformation of the Institution after World War Two -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix one -- Appendix two -- Appendix three -- Appendix four -- Appendix five -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - A history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia
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ER  -