Moral agendas for children's welfare

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Moral agendas for children's welfare

edited by Michael King

Routledge, 1999

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-245) and indexes

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780415180122

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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.

Table of Contents

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'
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: pbk ISBN 9780415180139

Description

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.

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