LEADER 05498nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910812420903321 005 20240612175231.0 010 $a9780773587946$b(EPDF) 010 $a0773587942$b(EPDF) 010 $a9781283901567$b(eBook) 010 $a0773587942$b(eBook) 010 $z9780773540552$b(Cloth) 010 $z0773540555$b(Cloth) 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773587946 035 $a(OCoLC)1162508937$z(OCoLC)830009259 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707709 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707709 100 $a20130109h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn#---maaaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe guardianship of best interests $einstitutional care for the children of the poor in Halifax, 1850-1960 /$fRene?e N. Lafferty 210 1$aMontreal & Kingston ;$aLondon :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d[2013]. 210 4$d©2013 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 373 pages, 6 unnumbered pages) $cillustrations, charts 225 1 $aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ;$v60. 311 08$aPrint version: Lafferty, Renée Nicole, 1973- Guardianship of best interests. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2012 9780773540552 0773540555 (OCoLC)793221964 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-359) and index. 327 $a"We Need No Reform": The Organization of Local Services and Administrative Innovation, c. 1850-1924 -- Race Uplift, Racism, and the Childhood Ideal: Founding and Funding the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children -- The Unremitting Exercise of Watchfulness: Institutional Environments, Routines, and Practices -- "Out of Mutual Respect Will Come Mutual Responsibility": Coordinating Services and Promoting Interagency Cooperation after World War One -- Managing "High Standards of Professional Ethics": Institutionalization, Gwendolen Lantz, and the Emergence of the "Modern" Children's Home, c. 1940-1952 -- From Protection to Treatment: Group Care and the Transformation of the Institution after World War Two -- Conclusion -- Appendices. 330 $a"A history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia. It is difficult to imagine how orphan asylums and children's homes - often depicted as places where abuse, deprivation, and cruelty were commonplace - once presented a viable solution to child neglect. Renée N. Lafferty examines this response as it played out in Halifax, demonstrating how these homes reacted both creatively and valiantly to their environment, despite chronic underfunding and a narrow vision of the possibilities available to disadvantaged children.The Guardianship of Best Interests traces the creation and administration of children's homes in Halifax from the mid-nineteenth century to their closure in the mid-twentieth. Against the backdrop of a city torn apart by race and religious politics, financial challenges, two world wars, and the devastating explosion of 1917, Halifax institutions frequently represented themselves as the cutting edge of professional child welfare methods. Placing their histories at the core of this study, Lafferty challenges the common assertion that such homes were readily abandoned in favour of the foster care method promoted by the Children's Aid Society.Through the unique perspective gained by considering inter-denominational competition, along with the effects of racism and the political posturing of the province's emerging welfare bureaucracy, The Guardianship of Best Interests unearths the significant similarities between past child welfare practices and our current approaches toward neglect and dependency."--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion.$nSeries two ;$v60. 517 3 $aInstitutional care for the children of the poor in Halifax, 1850-1960 606 $aPoor children$xInstitutional care$zNova Scotia$zHalifax$xHistory$y19th century$vCase studies 606 $aPoor children$xInstitutional care$zNova Scotia$zHalifax$xHistory$y20th century$vCase studies 606 $aUrban poor$xInstitutional care$zNova Scotia$zHalifax$xHistory$y19th century$vCase studies 606 $aUrban poor$xInstitutional care$zNova Scotia$zHalifax$xHistory$y20th century$vCase studies 606 $aInstitutional care$zNova Scotia$zHalifax$xHistory$y19th century$vCase studies 606 $aInstitutional care$zNova Scotia$zHalifax$xHistory$y20th century$vCase studies 606 $aInstitutional care$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00974282 607 $aNova Scotia$zHalifax$2fast 608 $aCase studies.$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aPoor children$xInstitutional care$xHistory 615 0$aPoor children$xInstitutional care$xHistory 615 0$aUrban poor$xInstitutional care$xHistory 615 0$aUrban poor$xInstitutional care$xHistory 615 0$aInstitutional care$xHistory 615 0$aInstitutional care$xHistory 615 7$aInstitutional care. 676 $a362.732 700 $aLafferty$b Rene?e Nicole$f1973-$01739651 801 0$bUAB 801 1$bUAB 801 2$bOCLCO 801 2$bZCU 801 2$bOCLCO 801 2$bUAT 801 2$bDLC 801 2$bPUL 801 2$bSTF 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bCaOWtU 912 $a9910812420903321 996 $aThe guardianship of best interests$94163806 997 $aUNINA