Lost Kids

Introduction / Mona Gleason, Tamara Myers, Leslie Paris, and Veronica Strong-Boag

Part 1: Wanted Kids? Institutions, Fostering, and Adoption

1 A Haven From Racism? Canadians Imagine Interracial Adoption / Karen Dubinsky

2 “Forgotten People of All the Forgotten”: Children with Disabilities in English Canada from the Nineteenth Century to the New Millennium / Veronica Strong-Boag

Part 2: The Trouble with Adolescents -- Law, Experts, and Institutions Target Youth

3 Lost in Modernity: "Maladjustment" and the "Modern Youth Problem," English Canada, 1920-50 / Cynthia Comacchio
4 James Dean and Jim Crow: Boys in the Texas Juvenile Justice System in the 1950s / William Bush
5 Nocturnal Disorder and the Curfew Solution: A History of Juvenile Sundown Regulations in Canada / Tamara Myers

Part 3: In Aid of Small Bodies -- Health, Hospitals, and Age in Historical Perspective

6 Learning and Leisure on the Inside: Programs for Sick Children at Sainte-Justine Hospital, 1925-70 / Denyse Baillargeon

7 “Lost Voices, Lost Bodies”? Doctors and the Embodiment of Children and Youth in English Canada from 1900 to the 1940s / Mona Gleason

Part 4: Colliding Visions -- The Politics of Families and Youth

8 What Child Left Behind? US Social Policy and the Hopeless Child / Molly Ladd-Taylor

9 “The Strange Way We Lived”: Divorce and American Childhood in the 1970s / Leslie Paris

10 Losing the Child in Child-Centred Legal Processes / Cindy L. Baldassi, Susan B. Boyd, and Fiona Kelly

Part 5: Access and Opportunity at the Beginning of theTwenty-First Century -- Equality Delayed

11 Play Is Not a Frill: Poor Youth Facing the Past, Present, and Future of Public Recreation in Canada / Wendy Frisby, Ted Alexander, and Janna Taylor

12 Deregulating Child Labour in British Columbia / Stephen McBride and John Irwin

Postscript / Neil Sutherland

List of Contributors

Index