ABSTRACT This article examines the modern foster care system through its intersections with rhetorical theories of care and rhetorical practices of hospitality and provision. At the beginning of the twentieth century, policy makers and activists promoted different rhetorics of fostering as they debated ways to care for America’s vulnerable and dependent children. From this national crisis of child welfare, the modern foster care system emerged. Revisiting the rhetorical struggle over foster care reopens the question of what it means to foster and brings into focus practices of family-making, parenting, child-rearing, and basic hospitality that are implicated in the response.

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修辞和寄养的兴起

摘要 本文通过其与护理修辞理论和款待和供应修辞实践的交集来审视现代寄养制度。在 20 世纪初，政策制定者和活动家在讨论如何照顾美国脆弱和依赖儿童的方式时，提倡不同的养育修辞。从这场儿童福利的全国性危机中，现代寄养制度应运而生。重新审视关于寄养的修辞斗争，重新审视了寄养意味着什么的问题，并将与回应有关的家庭制作、育儿、育儿和基本款待的做法纳入重点。