Description: The first comprehensive history of its subject, Child Protection charts the emergence and expansion of child welfare efforts. Examining successes and failures alike, Grossberg shows how ideas about protection reflected and reinforced the shifting meaning of childhood amid the political and cultural trends that tie the American past to its present.
Brief description: Michael Grossberg is Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University Bloomington. His books include Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America and A Judgment for Solomon: The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America.
Review Quotes: In clear prose and with illuminating examples, Michael Grossberg provides a wide-ranging history of how children became a focus of public policy in the twentieth century. Historians, legal and medical professionals, others who study and deal with children, and the well-informed public have much to learn from this important book.--Paula S. Fass, author of The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child