Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France

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By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer offers a fresh perspective on the self-fashioning of a new governmental order. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, social reformers claimed that children were increasingly the vict

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"This slim volume takes a postmodern approach to the French concept of children in moral danger as introduced in the 1889 law on the divestiture of paternal authority and as interpreted by administrators and jurists up to the creation of a new juvenile court in 1912."--Journal of Modern History