Minding the Children: Childcare in America from Colonial Times to the Present
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...
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1Apprenticeship : young children in a young nation172The mammy, the nurse, and the planter's wife453Utopia, U.S.A. : the nineteenth-century vision674The new immigrants1155The rich and not so rich between the wars2116Borrowed mothers : foster care in the Depression2757Rosie the Riveter and her sisters3078Child care revisited in the twenty-first century336
