Family Matters

Abstract

Family Matters is a history of government child welfare policy and practice. The work of the various government agencies responsible for child welfare (CWB, CWD, DSW) clustered around several main areas of child welfare, and I examine all of these in the history: juvenile delinquency and youth offending, residential care, the provisions made for ex-nuptial babies, adoption services, foster care, supervision and preventive policies, child neglect and abuse.