| Contents |
Prologue: Tales of love and global power -- Manufacturing the citizens of the world -- Reading Dr. Spock in postwar Europe and Japan -- Building international friendship in an orphan age -- Raising little cold warriors -- Forging the free child's armor -- Training the natives of the future -- Challenging the global parent -- Globalizing a happy childhood -- Epilogue: Raising children, uplifting the world. |
| Abstract |
Concerns the post World War II practice of US citizens' "adoption" of a foreign orphan (or child from a poor family) and sending aid and letters to that individual child. Also studies the NGOs that facilitated this practice. Argues that this practice was guided by the most up-to-date contemporary theories of childhood and psychological development, and was also thought to turn the assisted children into good anti-communists. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2014028417 |
| ISBN | 9780674368095 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0674368096 (alk. paper) |
