In 1893 Ontario introduced its first comprehensive child protection system. The concept of neglect and the assumption of societal and governmental responsibility for disadvantaged children was not new, however; it had evolved during Ontario's first century. By 1874 legislation provided a detailed and sophisticated description of children in need of protection and of deficient parents; a process for removing children from their parents and the authority to refuse their return; a new type of institution to care for these children; systematic government grants for children's homes and their accountability to the state; and simpler incorporation by which charitable institutions could assume the authority they needed over children in their care....
Ontario child welfare is entering territory where other countries have gone before. A decade earlier...
Child labour was not uncommon in the pre-industrial period, yet with industrialization demand for ch...
This three article dissertation contributes to the growing child protection placement literature by ...
To understand the position of the child in Ontario between 1850 and 1900 is to know a great deal abo...
While the Toronto Protestant Orphans’ Home, like other children’s homes of midto late-nineteenth-cen...
grantor: University of TorontoSparked by several high profile child deaths, Ontario's Chil...
Hidden stories of child abuse and child neglect haunt Saskatchewan's past. The inability of authori...
This study traces the development of the Protection of Children Acts in British Columbia from the fi...
During the period of the Great War—when the rest of the world had its eyes turned towards Europe—the...
grantor: University of TorontoThe changes in childhood in 19th and 20th century English-s...
Cet article retrace les origines lointaines de la loi québécoise sur la protection de la jeunesse de...
From Punishment to the Protection of Children : A Comparative Study on the Emergence of Policies on ...
The first tangible indication of a provincial responsibility for dependent and neglected children in...
This study is concerned with protective services for children as they have been developed in the U. ...
Ontario child welfare is entering territory where other countries have gone before. A decade earlier...
Child labour was not uncommon in the pre-industrial period, yet with industrialization demand for ch...
This three article dissertation contributes to the growing child protection placement literature by ...
To understand the position of the child in Ontario between 1850 and 1900 is to know a great deal abo...
While the Toronto Protestant Orphans’ Home, like other children’s homes of midto late-nineteenth-cen...
grantor: University of TorontoSparked by several high profile child deaths, Ontario's Chil...
Hidden stories of child abuse and child neglect haunt Saskatchewan's past. The inability of authori...
This study traces the development of the Protection of Children Acts in British Columbia from the fi...
During the period of the Great War—when the rest of the world had its eyes turned towards Europe—the...
grantor: University of TorontoThe changes in childhood in 19th and 20th century English-s...
Cet article retrace les origines lointaines de la loi québécoise sur la protection de la jeunesse de...
From Punishment to the Protection of Children : A Comparative Study on the Emergence of Policies on ...
The first tangible indication of a provincial responsibility for dependent and neglected children in...
This study is concerned with protective services for children as they have been developed in the U. ...
Ontario child welfare is entering territory where other countries have gone before. A decade earlier...
Child labour was not uncommon in the pre-industrial period, yet with industrialization demand for ch...
This three article dissertation contributes to the growing child protection placement literature by ...