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- Title
MATERNAL SOCIETIES IN FRANCE: Private Charity Before the Welfare State.
- Authors
Adams, Christine
- Abstract
This article reports that maternal societies played a key role in shaping the language and policies of maternalism and provided a future model for the provision of family social welfare services in France. Prior to 1871 and even beyond, the Society for Maternal Charity operated almost as a branch of government, although local sections tried to maintain independent control of their regulations and procedures. However, it was also under the Third Republic that official support for the society began to wane, as its moralistic and religious underpinnings came into conflict with the secular purposes of the government. Still, the Ministry of the Interior continued to look upon these societies as useful allies in its efforts to aid poor families well into the twentieth century.
- Subjects
FRANCE; POOR families; PUBLIC welfare; SOCIAL services; GOVERNMENT policy; FAMILIES; MATERNALISM (Public welfare)
- Publication
Journal of Women's History, 2005, Vol 17, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
1042-7961
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jowh.2005.0002