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
Summary
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-302) and index
Notes
In English
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EbscoHost platform, viewed May 1, 2015)