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Doxiadis, Spyros A. – Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1989
The history of social attitudes toward childhood and concepts of children since ancient times is reviewed as background for a discussion of ethics and society's role in child protection. (MSE)
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Children, Ethics
Peer reviewedZahavi, Gerald – Great Plains Quarterly, 1996
Traces the development and decline of communism and radical politics in Sheridan County, Montana, 1918-34. Examines conflicts that split the community into conservative and radical camps (primarily townspeople and farmers, respectively); the school and school board as defenders of conservative morality; intrusions of politics into children's…
Descriptors: Children, Communism, Community Attitudes, Community Relations
Peer reviewedBrenzel, Barbara – Harvard Educational Review, 1980
This history of Lancaster, a nineteenth-century reform school for poor girls, illustrates the change in reform ideology from belief in the efficacy of family-style environment to concern for protecting the social order from "hereditarily deviant" children. The role of institutions as mechanisms for social control of the poor and of women…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Theories, Children, Delinquent Rehabilitation
