Child for Keeps

JENNY KEATING has degrees from Sussex University, UK, and Monash University, Australia. She has been a museum curator, teacher, advice worker and journalist, and while living in Australia, worked as a commissioned historian. Since returning to the UK, she has completed a DPhil and is currently researching the history of history-teaching in schools.

• Illustrations  Introduction Setting the Scene: The Historical and Legal Background Developments in the Voluntary Sector Pressure for Government Action Legislation Takes Shape The First Years of Legally Sanctioned Adoption Government Action on the Adoption Societies The Second World War and its Aftermath Chapter Eight Final Conclusions Biographical Notes Bibliography Index

'In writing the first monograph on the history of adoption in England, Keating has opened up a significant new aspect of our understanding of family life in the 20th century for further research' - Reviews in History