From "Save the Children" to "Save the Tribe". Childcare Organizations in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria 1919 - 1939
From "Save the Children" to "Save the Tribe". Childcare Organizations in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria 1919 - 1939

Summary/Abstract: Summary The article presents the views and activities of the child protection movement in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria and their integration in the national ideologies of both countries in the interwar period 1919 - 1939. The main sources for the analyses are the periodicals Nasheto dete (Our Child) and Narodni podmladak” (National Offspring) as well as publications about child protection. In 1938 the second Balkan Congress for Child Protection took place in Belgrade and a Balkan Exhibition was prepared. The use of statistics, images, diagrams and photomontages in this exhibition is also analyzed in order to reveal the common tendencies as well as the differences between the child protection ideologies. The comparison between the Yugoslav and the Bulgarian Union of Child Protection in the inter-war period reveals many common features: similar social circumstances and demographic indexes, a common ideological basis and historical context of modernization, an openness to the achievements of other organizations. Nevertheless, the two organizations developed in different ways and they integrated themselves in a different manner into the national projects of the two countries.

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