The Prague Foundling Hospital and its Role in the Care for the Poor

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Prague Foundling Hospital and its Role in the Care for the Poor

Original language description

&quot;The paper deals with a foundling hospital in Prague and its role in child care. It briefly summarises the history of the foundling hospital, which was administered by the Provincial Maternity Hospital. The article focuses on monitoring the practice of childcare and it analyses the conditions under which children were admitted to the foundling hospital. It also focuses on foster care. The article shows how this institute recruited new foster parents and lists their responsibilities towards children. It also deals with a novelty in foster care – the so-called “two-third care”, which allowed either a biological mother or other blood relatives to become a foster parent of the child. The article specifies the role of this institute within the framework of care for the poor in Prague and its achievements. The foundling hospital fulfilled its role as guardian of uncared-for children and facilitated additional education or services for its residents. In addition, this facility also provided assistance to unmarried mothers.&quot;

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Poverty, Charity and Social Welfare in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

ISBN

978-1-4438-4497-0

Number of pages of the result

14

Pages from-to

242-256

Number of pages of the book

449

Publisher name

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Place of publication

Newcastle upon Tyne

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