e, prominently, changes in the situation of women and children." To explicate this thesis, she describes child protection through Children's Aid Societies in the period between 1880 an 1910 and the activities of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC). This particular organization, though initially located in Boston, spurred the development of a national child protection movement supported by private citizens and spouting an environmentalist rather than moralistic explanat
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