Abandoned Children
Contributors: Catherine Panter-Brick (Editor); Malcolm T. Smith (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521775557
Subjects: Child welfare; Social & cultural anthropology; Street children; Children's Studies; Anthropology - General; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Foundlings; Abuse - General; Abandoned children--History; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Abandoned children; Care; History
First sentence: To a casual observer, children who languish in foundling institutions, sleep rough on the streets of crowded urban centres or find themselves confined to refugee camps appear to all intents and purposes abandoned, either by their parents or by society.