It's History Of Childhood Disadvantage By Veronica Strong-Boag Summary

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Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts It’s History of Childhood Disadvantage, written by Veronica Strong-Boag, discusses the history of children in foster homes and institutions in Anglo-Canada. Strong-Boag examines the phases of fostering procedures being modified due to new polices being presented in Canada during the 1900s. These children would be removed willingly by the parent because of financial issues or by force through the government because of abuse or neglect. She argues that Canadians and their government failed to protect children who were abandoned and underprivileged throughout the 20th century. Even though she argues that Canadians and their government did a poor job of protecting children in the foster system, there was an addition of reforms developing within Canada. These included mothers’ allowances during WW1, unemployment insurance in the 1930s and 1940s and family …show more content…

Strong-Boag is not a feminist, or a marxists, but she is for equality amongst gender. This is why the book revolves around aspects of gender. To illustrate, part of chapter five discusses unwed-mothers and their role within the child welfare system. Strong-Boag pulls together different aspects of gender during the development of foster care to prove that the government was unsuccessful at achieving protection for children. She wanted to ensure that there was an equal and fair account for each gender. When it came to the discussion of children, there was not necessarily a distinction of boy or girl, but when it came to parents, she provided roles of men and women, and how women tried to break those barriers through child welfare. She uses the Vancouver Women’s Christian Temperance Union to describe women breaking through their roles in the household. This proves her perspective of tackling down state support for child

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