Poor Relations(English, Paperback, Gittens Joan)

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Poor Relations(English, Paperback, Gittens Joan) is written by Gittens Joan and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252064119 (ISBN 10) and 9780252064111 (ISBN 13).

This comprehensive history traces the care of dependent, delinquent, and disabled children in Illinois from the early nineteenth century to current times, focusing on the dilemmas raised by both public intervention and the lack of it. Joan Gittens explores the inadequacies of a system that has allowed problems in the public care of children to recur regularly but at the same time insists that the state's own history makes it clear that the potential for improvements exists.