Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland [electronic resource] / Moira Maguire.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: viii, 244 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.70869409415 22
LOC classification:
  • HV757.A6 M33 2009eb
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Contents:
Poverty, family dysfunction, and state provision for neglected children -- Cherished equally? "Outdoor" provision for illegitimate children -- Cherished equally? Institutional provision for illegitimate children -- Legislating care and protection : the Carrigan Committee, the age of consent, and adoption -- The abused child? -- Sanctity of child life? Official responses to infanticide -- Desperate act or wilful choice? Infanticide and unwanted children.
Summary: This study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to cherish and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised and ignored them.
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"Moira J. Maguire"--Book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Poverty, family dysfunction, and state provision for neglected children -- Cherished equally? "Outdoor" provision for illegitimate children -- Cherished equally? Institutional provision for illegitimate children -- Legislating care and protection : the Carrigan Committee, the age of consent, and adoption -- The abused child? -- Sanctity of child life? Official responses to infanticide -- Desperate act or wilful choice? Infanticide and unwanted children.

This study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to cherish and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised and ignored them.

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