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The State and Children's Fate

Reproduction in traumatic times

Jessaca B. Leinaweaver

University of Manitoba, j_leinaweaver{at}umanitoba.ca

Claudia Fonseca

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

This article introduces a special issue on the meaning of children in violent, uncertain times. It is framed in terms of the political-economy aspects of adoption, focusing on the local occurrences that make international adoption possible, from legal determinations of abandonment to wartime and postwar parenting. The article argues that government and civil institutions contain and shape children in the context of the dual oppressions of violence and socioeconomic inequality, and works to destabilize normative depictions of social reproduction, outlining a programme of study where aspects of children's lives are understood in line with their complex historical conditions.

Key Words: adoption • childhood • parenthood • poverty • state • violence • war

Childhood, Vol. 14, No. 3, 291-299 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0907568207079210
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