Moral Agendas For Children's Welfare

Herausgeber: King, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780415180139
• ISBN-10: 0415180139
• Artikelnr.: 22448523

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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'