Från fattigvård till hattmakare : En studie om fattiga barn som mottog uppfostringshjälp från Serafimerorden åren 1807 och 1809

Sammanfattning: This study is based on twelve children born in the late 1700´s and early 1800´s in the city of Västervik. During 1807 and 1809 they received child support due to their poor upbringing. This essey will study how their life unfold after they got child support, will the children remain poor or will they have a chance to develop a new life. This study will also look on the structure of child support in the early nineteenth century in Sweden. This study has used an a collective biography method and class perspective. The study´s source material has been accesed through ArkivDigital search service. The conclusion is that many of the children did not receive education beacuse they were poor or sick. Which made them take works that didn´t required any form of education, the children had therefore no chance to change their life and stayed poor for the rest of their lives. Child support in the early nineteenth century was structured to give money to parents of poor and sick children. The idea behind child support was just to make the children survive, so they later become workers in society.