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Tables of Contents for Endangered Children
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Illustrations
ix
2
Series Editors' Note
xi
2
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
5
1. Old Solutions, New Circumstances, 1607-1800
6
11
2. The Rise of Antebellum Congregate Institutions
17
18
3. "Placing Out": Orphan Trains, Foster Homes, and Adoption
35
20
4. Discovering Cruelty and Building More Asylums in the Late Ninteenth Century
55
24
5. Innovation, Tradition, and Progressive-Era "Child Saving"
79
22
6. The Issues Fade, 1920-1960
101
24
7. Children's Issues as Battleground, 1960-1980
125
25
8. Continuing Battles, Tragedies, Crisis: The 1980s and 1990s
150
29
Epilogue
179
8
Chronology
187
5
Notes
192
36
Bibliographic Essay
228
15
Index
243