ISBN:
9780203451823
,
0415277736
,
0415277744
,
9780415277730
,
9780415277747
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (189 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Future of Childhood
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.23
Keywords:
Children Family relationships
;
Children Social conditions
;
Work and family
;
Social change
;
Children of divorced parents
;
Children ; Family relationships
;
Children ; Social conditions
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance with societal changes in demographic and economic terms, and as a result of the choices parents make in response to these changes. Despite claims that society is becoming increasingly child-centred, this book argues that children still have little influence over the major changes in their lives. This book breaks new ground by researching family change from the child's point of view. Through combinations from childhood experts in Scandinavia, the UK and America, the book shows the importance of studying children's lives in families in order to understand how far children are active agents in contemporary society. Students of childhood studies, sociology, social work and education will find this book essential reading. It will also be of interest to practitioners in the social, child and youth services.
Abstract:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: theorizing childhood and family change -- Children's changing families and family resources -- Children's perspectives on middle-class work family arrangements -- Employed or unemployed parents: a child perspective -- Father presence in childcare -- Children's experience of their parents' divorce -- Children coping with parental divorce: what helps, what hurts? -- As fair as it can be? Childhood after divorce -- Children's stories of parental breakup -- For the children's sake: symbolic power lost? -- Childhood and family time: a changing historical relationship -- Afterword: Changing childhoods: a case study -- Notes -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: theorizing childhood and family change; Children's changing families and family resources; Children's perspectives on middle-class work family arrangements; Employed or unemployed parents: a child perspective; Father presence in childcare; Children's experience of their parents' divorce; Children coping with parental divorce: what helps, what hurts?; As fair as it can be? Childhood after divorce; Children's stories of parental breakup; For the children's sake: symbolic power lost?
Description / Table of Contents:
Childhood and family time: a changing historical relationshipAfterword: Changing childhoods: a case study; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=181849
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