title: "It used to be about the kids": nutrition reform and the Montreal Protestant School Board.
abstract: The nutrition programs that developed in Montreal Protestant schools during the 1970s attest to a deepening awareness of child and adolescent welfare. The combination of grassroots activism and government support that brought about these initiatives took place in the context of post-Quiet Revolution Quebec, when Montrealers were grappling with the role that the newly activist state should play in social life. At the same time, school nutrition reform was part of a broader ongoing renegotiation of state responsibility. Both in Canada and the United States, governments were steadily assuming a mantle of responsibility for expanded liberal rights.
authors.forename: Lana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Povitz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D002170:Canada / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D018673:Nutrition Policy / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011639:Public Opinion / Q000266:history; D012574:Schools / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012941:Social Responsibility