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03033aam a2200397 i 4500 001 BA2BD472173D11E6929784D6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160511010024 008 141205s2015 iluab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014046098 020 $a 0252039246 020 $a 9780252039249 035 $a (OCoLC)893454405 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d SPI $d CDX $d ZCU $d COO $d ILM $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usc-- 050 00 $a HV875.56.M54 $b B57 2015 082 00 $a 362.73/3097709034 $2 23 100 1 $a Birk, Megan, $d 1979- 245 10 $a Fostering on the farm : $b child placement in the rural Midwest / $c Megan Birk. 264 1 $a Urbana : $b University of Illinois Press, $c [2015] 300 $a viii, 234 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm. 505 0 $a Introduction: the search for a home -- The rural ideal: constructing a myth -- "Qualify them for the duties of life" -- "The hideous consequences" -- "The right of the state to interfere is unquestioned" -- The farm, the federal government, and the decline of placement -- Epilogue: "the great drama of childhood." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [214]-228) and index. 520 $a From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with farming families. The farmers received free labor in return for providing room and board. Reformers, meanwhile, believed children learned lessons in family life, citizenry, and work habits that institutions simply could not provide. Drawing on institution records, correspondence from children and placement families, and state reports, Megan Birk scrutinizes how the farm system developed--and how the children involved may have become some of America's last indentured laborers. Between 1850 and 1900, up to one-third of farm homes contained children from outside the family. Birk reveals how the nostalgia attached to misplaced perceptions about healthy, family-based labor masked the realities of abuse, overwork, and loveless upbringings endemic in the system. She also considers how rural people cared for their own children while being bombarded with dependents from elsewhere. Finally, Birk traces how the ills associated with rural placement eventually forced reformers to transition to a system of paid foster care, adoptions, and family preservation. 650 0 $a Foster children $z Middle West $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Foster home care $z Middle West $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Rural families $z Middle West $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Farm life $z Middle West $x History $y 19th century. 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628. 941 $a 4 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724072805.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221203070329.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20160618010238.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20160511011140.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BA2BD472173D11E6929784D6DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search