oai:hssh.journals.yorku.ca:article/4160A discourse on adoption emerged between 1948 and 1965 in which the fitness of parents was given primary emphasis and was measured by new tools of psychological assessment. The postwar years were characterized by new attention to mental health and a revitalized family imperative. Social workers fought to establish their own authority over adoption practices, against the private, “grey market” arrangements made by doctors and lawyers. Social workers attempted to do this in two ways: by shoring up responsibility for the “home visit”, the technique by which they could assess “proper” motivations and fitness of parents; and by linking the fitness of parents to the postwar project of nation-building. The pli...
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Pour les réformateurs du mouvement de santé publique à la fin du XIXe siècle, l’éducation des popula...
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During the 1930s and 1940s economic crisis and world war in Canada worked to erode the persistent id...
Juvenile delinquency, a key concern in the context of the Cold War and the 1950s, was integral to th...
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Le projet migratoire est, dans bien des cas, axé sur la sphère familiale. Or, la réalité des famille...
Women of the baby-boom generation are the first generation of women to present an old age-retirement...
In 1967 George Ryga wrote The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, ironically celebrating Canada’s centennial with t...
This study draws attention to the importance of the early provincial federations of labour as a dist...
Historians of Quebec have long been familiar with the central importance of the patriarchal family a...
Pour les réformateurs du mouvement de santé publique à la fin du XIXe siècle, l’éducation des popula...
Thousands of child Holocaust survivors arrived in Montreal, Quebec, between 1947 and 1952, lo...
In the 1970s, two private adoption agencies faced state and public scrutiny over their ‘rescue’ of o...
The founding in 1932 of British Columbia’s provincial Child Guidance Clinic by Dr. A. L. Crease of E...
During the 1930s and 1940s economic crisis and world war in Canada worked to erode the persistent id...
Juvenile delinquency, a key concern in the context of the Cold War and the 1950s, was integral to th...
Funding support for this doctoral thesis has been provided by the Canadian Institutes of Health Rese...
Cadre de la recherche : La pratique de l’abandon volontaire d’enfants est le plu...
La clinique de l’autisme nous incite, encore aujourd’hui, à devoir réfléchir à la façon dont nous po...
Les troubles de l’attachement dans l’enfance, et plus particulièrement les troubles réactionnels de ...
Le projet migratoire est, dans bien des cas, axé sur la sphère familiale. Or, la réalité des famille...
Women of the baby-boom generation are the first generation of women to present an old age-retirement...
In 1967 George Ryga wrote The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, ironically celebrating Canada’s centennial with t...
This study draws attention to the importance of the early provincial federations of labour as a dist...
Historians of Quebec have long been familiar with the central importance of the patriarchal family a...
Pour les réformateurs du mouvement de santé publique à la fin du XIXe siècle, l’éducation des popula...
Thousands of child Holocaust survivors arrived in Montreal, Quebec, between 1947 and 1952, lo...