Sora de ocrotire în regiunile istorice ale Transilvaniei și Banatului (prima jumătate a secolului XX) / The sister of care in the historical regions of Transylvania and Banat (first half of the 20th century)
Jan. 1, 2022
Keywords:
Banat
Transylvania
social and medical norms
feminine studies
children's care and protection
first half of the 20th century
sister of care
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Abstract
Women's involvement in health and medical matters and especially in ensuring the care and protection of children has a long history. Because mothers or not, it is inscribed in the feminine nature, it is that maternal instinct that constantly feels the need to protect and ensure the well-being of others. Among the rather feminine occupations for this purpose, in the first half of the 20th century there was also that of sister of care. The institutional bases of this occupation were established by a circular order in 1917 when the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs Ugron Gàbor decreed its establishment with the main purpose of combating the depopulation caused by the First World War and the infant mortality in an alarming rise, caused by the impoverishment of certain social classes, negligence, lack of financial means, but also by the lack of solid information of mothers regarding the care of their own children.
Ever since the emergence and establishment on legal bases of this occupational structure of sisters of care, a close collaboration between them and the institutions for the protection and education of children has been targeted. The measures taken were to lead to an improvement in the situation of abandoned children, as well as illegitimate children, or legitimate children whose physical and moral environment endangered their existence, development and natural growth.
