"Children in Homes" is part of the critical debates on this socially important topic. How did the guiding ideas of home upbringing develop, how did change the principles and practices of socialisation in certain values and identities (gender-specific, social, religious, national); how did the concept of 'neglect'/'Verwahrlosung' change and with which gender-specific connotations was it connected, who were the actors of social work; what possibilities...