The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain: Taking, Losing, and Fighting for Children, 1926-1945

by Peter Anderson

The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain analyses the ideas and practices that underpinned the age of mass child removal. This era emerged from growing criticisms across the world of 'dangerous' parents and the developing belief in the nineteenth century that the state could provide superior guardianship to 'unfit' parents. In the late nineteenth century, the juvenile-court movement led the way in forging a new and more efficient system of child removal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192844571
• ISBN13: 9780192844576
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"