Author: Ransel, David L.
Title: Mothers of Misery: Child Abandonment in Russia
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1988). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiv,330 pp. Textual graphs & tables. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction; Illegitimacy & Infanticide in Early Modern Russia; "You Too Shall Live": The Betskoi System; The Era of the Turning Cradle in Europe & Russia; Public Criticism & Piecemeal Reform; A Break with the Past; Sex Ratios of Abandoned Children; The Abandoning Mothers; Fosterage: The First One Hundred Years; The Foundling Market: A Network of Exchange between Town & Village; Geography of the Fosterage System; Social & Medical Consequences of Fosterage; Conclusions; Appendix.

Keywords: Russian Social History, Russia, Historical, Sociology, Abandoned, Children, Child Abandonment, Foundlings, Foster Home Care