"Everyone's been good to me, especially the dogs": foster-children and young paupers in nineteenth-century Southern Iceland. From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 1993| Author: Gunnlaugsson, Gisli Agust | COPYRIGHT 1993 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The present article seeks to establish the extent to which children and youth were fostered by persons other than natal parents in nineteenth-century southern Iceland. Furthermore, it attempts to compare the social position of foster-children with that of young paupers. The research focuses on the county of Arnessysla, using censuses, parish registers and catechetical registers to determine the number of foster-children and paupers under the age of 20 and to establish whether or not there wer...

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