Some Children Matter More Than Others: Issues Prompted by Roy Parker's Study of the Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867–1917

In: Adoption & fostering: quarterly journal, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 6-18

Abstract

Roy Parker's book Uprooted1 charts the events that led to 80,000 children being shipped to Canada by the Poor Law and voluntary bodies during the 50 years following confederation in 1867. Michael Little discusses the issues raised by this historical study for current policy and practice and charts the conditions that allow for government and children's services to collude with potentially damaging interventions in children's lives.