Moral agendas for children's welfare / edited by Michael King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, Michael, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.

Child welfare.

Physical Description:

vi, 257 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Michael King

2. Images of children and morality / Michael King

3. Moral campaigns for children's welfare in the nineteenth century / Christine Piper

4. Liberalism or distributional justice? The morality of child welfare laws / Terry Carney

5. Can child abuse be defined? / David Archard

6. Is male circumcision morally defensible? / Ilan Katz

7. Meditations on parental love : the transcendence of the rights/welfare divide / Marinos Diamantides

8. Justice and childhood : reflections on refashioned boundaries / Alison Diduck

9. Moral agendas for psychoanalytic practice with children and families / Judith Trowell and Gillian Miles

10. With justice in mind : complexity, child welfare and the law / Andrew Cooper

11. What is good and bad sex for children? / Wendy Stainton Rogers and Rex Stainton Rogers

12. Identity, religious fundamentalism and children's welfare / Stephen Frosh

13. Failing children : responding to young people with 'behavioural difficulties' / Daniel Monk.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

1-134-67980-7

1-134-67981-5

9786610267996

1-280-26799-2

0-203-00451-5

9780203004517

OCLC:

261960190