Fostering Nation By Veronica String-Boag: Book Analysis

Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage written by Veronica String-Boag explores the oversights and the demanded promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. String-Boag draws on a perspective that examines Canada’s marginalized youngsters between the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The novel examines many different aspects about childhood disadvantage ranging from institutions, birth parents, state policies, and foster parents. This provides the audience with an endless reminder that the welfare of children cannot be separated from institutions and the community. But how well does String-Boag’s novel go about displaying the history of childhood disadvantage

I can strongly state that String-Boag and her incorporation of kinship, surrogacy, the dilemma of childhood care, and other relating elements provides a strong insight into the history of childhood disadvantages and foster care. It is stated by the author as soon as the reader opens the novel that it is not a happy book. Instead it is a book that goes in depth towards underlining the historical issues facing the mainstream Canadian society and the structural inequalities that have caused a form of disadvantage for particular children who descend from a particular group. It is because of this extent that readers will encounter emotions of disbelief, astonishment, and utter displeasure enlightening them on historical issues that disadvantaged certain children from one another. It is through the contents of this book review that aspects of String-Boag’s novel will be showcased to persuade readers as to why it is a novel to be recognized in

Strong-Boag strives to emphasize the importance of her ideology of foster parents by noting the shortage of “traditionally respectable” parents and the incorporation welfare systems that failed to live up to its initial goal. Strong-Boag, however, makes noticeable of the different efforts that are being incorporated into improving the idea of fostering. Such include the celebration of outstanding foster parents and the growth of foster parent associations. We as Canadians fail to recognize the value of caring labour, and in turn Strong-Boag strives to make this overlooked issue one that is worthy of attention. Near the conclusion of the book readers are able to tie the themes of Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage to the youngsters themselves. Strong-Boag stresses that many began life in straitened circumstances and with early disabilities and they are becoming a diverse group in our society. Many children in care deal with emotional and major physical problems that are shadowed away from the public and instead replaced with images of children who are cheerful and encounter happy endings. This is what makes Strong-Boag such an empowering author. She digs deep into a ground-breaking phenomenon and unleashes the secrets and issues that