Keeping Children Safe is Good Business: The Enterprise of Child Safety in the Age of Reagan
本文考察1980年代儿童保护运动中儿童安全如何成为一项事业，揭示在政府信任危机背景下，联邦政府扩大角色同时强调私营部门（尤其营利公司）在保护儿童中的首要地位。
This essay investigates the ways in which child safety became an enterprise during the child protection crusade of the 1980s. Americans clamored for an increased federal presence in “the battle for child safety,” but they made such calls in a climate of intense governmental distrust. The federal government did assume a larger role on the issue of missing and exploited children with the passage of the Missing Children and Missing Children’s Assistance Acts of 1982 and 1984, respectively. But, as this essay demonstrates, the state also stressed the primacy of the private sector—and specifically for-profit companies—in protecting American children. The celebration by President Ronald Reagan and others of private sector efforts to raise awareness about and “save” American youngsters laid the groundwork for a broader child safety apparatus that took hold in the final decades of the twentieth century.