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- Title
CHILD WELFARE IN FICTION AND FACT.
- Authors
Bremner, Robert H.
- Abstract
The article focuses on nineteenth century English and American fiction depicting the social conditions of children and the welfare plans to solve their problems. The objective to place the deprived child in a loving family was not practical. Novels like "Sybil," "Jane Eyre," and "David Copperfield," depict how children feel about their conditions and the treatment meted out to them. In Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist," a poor boy born in a parish workhouse is brought up by churchwardens and later apprenticed to an employer without the child's consent. Reforms like child custody and foster care were advocated by the middle and upper class society of the 19th century.
- Subjects
CHILD welfare; SOCIAL conditions of children; 19TH century American fiction; OLIVER Twist (Book : Dickens); DICKENS, Charles, 1812-1870; JANE Eyre (Book : Bronte); FOSTER home care; CUSTODY of children; LITERATURE &; society
- Publication
Child Welfare, 1995, Vol 74, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0009-4021
- Publication type
Article