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Deeply searching and challenging collection of socio-cultural and critical explorations of the issues facing children, their families and children's services.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION
Protecting children, projecting childhood - Craig Newnes
PART ONE: JUST KIDS?
Children and childhood constructed - Craig Newnes
Constructing innocence and risk as a rationale for intervention - Melissa Burkett
The Stolen Generations: The forced removal of First Peoples children in Australia - Pat Dudgeon, Carmen Cubillo and Abigail Bray
Children and austerity - Carl Harris
Single motherhood - Laura Golding
Considering the relationship between vulnerability and child sexual exploitation - Adele Gladman
PART TWO: JUST SERVICES?
The rights of parents and children in regard to children receiving psychiatric diagnoses and drugs - Peter Breggin
'Learning-disabled children' - Katherine Runswick-Cole and Dan Goodley
Children and electroconvulsive therapy - Craig Newnes
Looking after children: Love, meaning and connection - Carolyn McQueen
Don't Blame the Parents: Is it possible to develop non-blaming models of parental causation of distress? - Rudi Dallos
Summary
Edited collection of socio-cultural and critical reviews of the place of children and children's services in society.Contributions provide perspectives on constructing childhood, parent-hood, sexuality, ADHD, children and austerity, the family court system, parental blame and responsibility, learning disabilities, and poverty.
