Abstract
From Family Assistance To Family Policies. 1870-1914 - In examining the first decades of the Third Republic up to the First World War, this article attempts to explain the emergence of new legal-institutional systems which were merely the first » premises of family policy. The research on which this critical study is based contributes to it in several ways. In a context dramatising the drop in birth rate, it brings out the stakes and debates revolving around the twofold question of protecting young children and taking steps to encourage large families, as well as the methods of action adopted by both public authorities and private institutions. The research also shows how these measures were based on an intense activity of producing statistical, demographic and medical knowledge. Finally, they invite us to question the role of the protagonists in this story and the impact of their positions and social itineraries and the networks they built up on how family issues were reformulated at the turn of the century.
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