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ISBN/UID: 9780887062803
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 15 July 1986
Description
In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers--up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents...
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163 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780887062803
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 15 July 1986
Description
In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers--up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents...