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Abandoned children and their transitions to adulthood in nineteenth-century Italy

Sigle-Rushton, Wendy ORCID: 0000-0002-8450-960X, Kertzer, David I. and White, Michael J. (2000) Abandoned children and their transitions to adulthood in nineteenth-century Italy. Journal of Family History, 25 (3). pp. 326-340. ISSN 0363-1990

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Identification Number: 10.1177/036319900002500304

Abstract

Recent work on the large-scale abandonment of European infants has focused on abandonment itself, how the infants were treated, and how many survived infancy. Little is known about what happened to those who survived. The authors focus on what happened to the foundlings of Bologna, Italy, over the course of the nineteenth century, at the point in their lives when foster families were no longer paid to care for them. The evidence from Bologna does not support previous assumptions that their ties to their foster families were weak and that their fate was thus a bleak one.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://jfh.sagepub.com/
Additional Information: © 2000 Sage Publications, Inc.
Divisions: Social Policy
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited: 10 Jan 2011 12:27
Last Modified: 03 Jan 2024 06:18
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31312

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