Childhood in question : children, parents and the state / edited by Anthony Fletcher and Stephen Hussey.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1999.

177 pages ; 23 cm

"Papers presented to the Childhood in Question conference held at the Department of History at the Universiy of Essex, 18-20 April 1997" -preface.

What is a child? / Anna Davin -- Death in childhood: the practice of the 'good death' in James Janeway's A token for children / Ralph Houlbrooke -- Silent witnesses? Children and the breakdown of domestic and social order in early modern England / Elizabeth A. Foyster -- 'A denial of innocence': female juvenile victims of rape and the English legal system in the eighteenth century / Julie Gammon -- Home, play and street life: causes of, and explanations for, juvenile crime in the early nineteenth century / Heather Shore -- Parent-child separations and colonial careers: the Talbot family correspondence in the 1880s and 1890s / Elizabeth Buettner -- Family, community and the regulation of child sexual abuse: London, 1870-1914 / Louise A. Jackson -- Lost childhoods: recovering children's experience of welfare in modern Scotland / Lynn Abrams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.