001479999 000__ 05868nam\a22009375i\4500 001479999 001__ 1479999 001479999 003__ DE-B1597 001479999 005__ 20231026035120.0 001479999 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479999 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479999 008__ 230918t20082008nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479999 020__ $$a9780814764411 001479999 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814764411.001.0001$$2doi 001479999 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548167 001479999 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479999 0410_ $$aeng 001479999 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479999 050_4 $$aHV885.N5 001479999 072_7 $$aHIS036080$$2bisacsh 001479999 08204 $$a362.76$$222/eng 001479999 1001_ $$aMiller, Julie, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479999 24510 $$aAbandoned :$$bFoundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City /$$cJulie Miller. 001479999 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2008] 001479999 264_4 $$c©2008 001479999 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479999 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479999 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479999 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479999 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479999 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tList of Tables -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tAbbreviations -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1 "Children of Accident and Mystery": Foundlings in History and Literature -- $$t2 "New York as a Nursing Mother": Foundlings in the Antebellum City -- $$t3 "The Murder of the Innocents": New York Discovers Its Foundlings -- $$t4 "The Basket at the Door": The Foundling Asylums Open -- $$t5 "Out-Heroding Herod": The Foundlings and the Revolutionary -- $$t6 The End of the Foundling Asylums -- $$t7 Conclusion: The Foundling Disappears-Almost -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479999 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479999 520__ $$aTwo interesting items: The author's article in New York ArchivesA letter regarding foundlings in The Riverdale PressIn the nineteenth century, foundlings-children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth-were commonplace in European society. There were asylums in every major city to house abandoned babies, and writers made them the heroes of their fiction, most notably Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. In American cities before the Civil War the situation was different, with foundlings relegated to the poorhouse instead of institutions designed specifically for their care. By the eve of the Civil War, New York City in particular had an epidemic of foundlings on its hands due to the rapid and often interlinked phenomena of urban development, population growth, immigration, and mass poverty. Only then did the city's leaders begin to worry about the welfare and future of its abandoned children.In Abandoned, Julie Miller offers a fascinating, frustrating, and often heartbreaking history of a once devastating, now forgotten social problem that wracked America's biggest metropolis, New York City. Filled with anecdotes and personal stories, Miller traces the shift in attitudes toward foundlings from ignorance, apathy, and sometimes pity for the children and their mothers to that of recognition of the problem as a sign of urban moral decline and in need of systematic intervention. Assistance came from public officials and religious reformers who constructed four institutions: the Nursery and Child's Hospital's foundling asylum, the New York Infant Asylum, the New York Foundling Asylum, and the public Infant Hospital, located on Randall's Island in the East River.Ultimately, the foundling asylums were unable to significantly improve children's lives, and by the early twentieth century, three out of the four foundling asylums had closed, as adoption took the place of abandonment and foster care took the place of institutions. Today the word foundling has been largely forgotten. 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