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Book Review : Sylvia Schafer, Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, pp. ix + 232

Divestiture of Paternal Authority. By its terms, parents who had subjected their children to &dquo;moral danger&dquo; could be divested of their parental rights by a civil court, at which point their children became wards of the state. As Sylvia Schafer argues in Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France-a compelling and very ambitious study of this law-the French government’s decision to formally breech the legal barrier that had long protected the family from state intervention transformed relations between the public and private spheres and marked a crucial moment in the development of modem social welfare initiatives. Children in Moral Danger is a densely written book that makes few concessions to the nonspecialist. Despite this shortcoming, it is an important work and should be considered essential reading by anyone interested in the intersecting histories of childhood, family, and the