"Mahood's clear and stimulating book is a study of the origins and development of the "child-saving" movement in Scotland. Mahood used both archival and oral sources, but her study is not a detailed administrative history. Rather, it is a brief and suggestive work that also addresses current methodological and ideological concerns, and does so both convincingly and clearly. Upper-division undergraduates and above." P. T. Smith, Saint Joseph's University, CHOICE.