Abandonment, Adoption and Reproductive Disruption: Transitions in Child Circulation in Mexico City, 1880-1910

Autor/in	Blum, Ann S.
Titel	Abandonment, Adoption and Reproductive Disruption: Transitions in Child Circulation in Mexico City, 1880-1910
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 14 (2007) 3, S.321-338 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568207079212
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Public Policy; Young Children; Low Income Groups; Child Abuse; Welfare Services; Adoption; Middle Class; Sociocultural Patterns; Socioeconomic Influences; Socioeconomic Status; Child Welfare; Residential Institutions; Family Relationship; Parents; Mexico (Mexico City) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Öffentliche Ordnung; Frühe Kindheit; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Fürsorgeeinrichtung; Mittelschicht; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Kindeswohl; Wohnumgebung; Eltern
Abstract	To explore meanings attached to children in Mexican society, this article examines two changing aspects of child circulation, a widespread reproductive disruption to the families of Mexico City's working poor. In the late 1890s, a rapid rise in admissions to the public foundling home was matched by a striking increase in retrievals. At the other end of the social spectrum, growing preference for adopting infants and young children indicates that adoption was becoming an acceptable means of forming families among the middle and upper classes. Changes in welfare policy encouraged both trends. This convergence of family practice and public policy illuminates transitions in concepts of infancy and early childhood informed by a consolidating ethic of protected childhood. These dynamics prefigured the emergence of child protection legislation in the 1910s and the expansion of welfare services in the 1920s and 1930s. (Contains 5 resources.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10