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Connecting children : care and family life in later childhood / Julia Brannen, Ellen Heptinstall & Kalwant Bhopal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brannen, Julia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Family relationships.
- Children.
- Families.
- Parent and child.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different ways both in the household but also in their wider kinship networks. The children studied reflect upon family life and especially upon situations where their own family lives change dramatically, such as when parents divorce or are unable to care for them. This book will be of interest to those working in education, social work, child care, counselling, social policy and childh
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Themes and concepts; 2 Children's beliefs about care; 3 Children's families and social ties; 4 Children's accounts of family change; 5 The importance of mothers and fathers; 6 The importance of siblings; 7 The importance of grandparents, relatives, friends and others; 8 Children's contribution to family life; 9 Children and mothers' regulation regulation; 10 Conclusions; Appendix; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-58012-6
- 9786610111855
- 1-280-11185-2
- 1-134-58013-4
- 0-203-99635-6
- 9780203996355
- OCLC:
- 559455843
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