Moral Agendas For Children's Welfare

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-18013-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

Moral Agendas for Children's Welfare examines the roles played by politics, religion, ethics, aesthetics, law and science in identifying children's needs and rights and critically analyses existing child welfare policies.
Five sections cover the following Agendas:

* Philosophical and Psychoanalytical
* Psychological and Sociological
* Religious
* Social Policy
* Child Protection.
Moral Agendas for Children's Welfare will provide invaluable reading for students in law, social work and policy and sociology and professionals in welfare, health care and law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 2 Images of children and morality3 Moral campaigns for children’s welfare in the nineteenth century 4 Liberalism or distributional justice? The morality of child welfare laws 5 Can child abuse be defined? 6 Is male circumcision morally defensible? 7 Meditations on parental love: the transcendence of the rights/welfare Divide MAKINGS DIAMANTIDES 8 Justice and childhood: reflections on refashioned boundaries 9 Moral agendas for psychoanalytic practice with children and families 10 With justice in mind: complexity, child welfare and the law 11 What is good and bad sex for children? 12 Identity, religious fundamentalism and children’s welfare 13 Failing children: responding to young people with ‘behavioural difficulties’

Über Autor(innen)

Michael King is Professor in the Department of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law, the Child and the Family at Brunei University, Uxbridge.