Article: "Everyone's been good to me, especially the dogs": foster-children and young paupers in nineteenth-century Southern Iceland.

Introduction

Parent-child relations in the European past have attracted considerable academic interest since the 1960s. During the 1970s and early 1980s historical research into the subject was largely concerned with questions relating to attitudes towards children and the treatment of children in former times.(1) During the 1970s and 1980s various scholars explored other issues closely related to the history of childhood. Thus, during the 1970s Peter Laslett published on parental deprivation in the English past, to mention but one example.(2) Judging by the relative scarcity of publications on orphans and stepparenthood during the late 1970s and early 1980s, the ...

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