Philosophy and Child Poverty Reflections on the Ethics and Politics of Poor Children and their Families /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brando, Nicolás (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schweiger, Gottfried (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Philosophy and Poverty, 1
• Subjects: Political philosophy.; Well-being.; Children.; Political theory.; Ethics.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Social groups.; Family.; Political Philosophy.; Child Well-being.; Political Theory.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

This book offers a broad and diverse reflection of the ways in which child poverty could be conceptualised, and the ways in which it is intertwined with childhood as a specific social condition. Furthermore, the responsibilities towards children and the possible mechanisms required for dealing with...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Nicolás Brando and Gottfried Schweiger
• Section I: Definitions and Measurements
• Chapter 1. Child poverty, impoverished parenting, and normative childhood: some words of caution; Douglas Hanes
• Chapter 2. Children in Measurements of Poverty within Populations: Two Problems with Current Indexes; Katarina Pitasse
• Chapter 3. Poverty, Social Expectations, and the Family; Jonathan Wolff
• Chapter 4. Beyond the Material Wounds of Child Poverty: The Conceptualization of Child Povertz as Moral Damage; Mar Cabezas and Carlos Pitillas
• Section II: Children and Families Living in Poverty
• Chapter 5. Making them strong? Vulnerability and resilience in poor children; Alexander Bagattini and Rebecca Gutwald
• Chapter 6. Humiliation and Child Poverty; Gottfried Schweiger
• Chapter 7. Education, Voice and Empowerment: Learning with and from Children in Poverty; Yasmin Rosie N. and Dadvand Babak
• Chapter 8. The Nature of Nurture: Poverty, Father Absence and Gender Equality; Alison Denham
• Chapter 9. 'I've been trying to change my life heaps but I always end up back here'. The complex relationship between poverty, parental substance dependency, and self-control; Anke Snoek
• Chapter 10. Disability and Child Poverty; Sarah Gorman
• Chapter 11. Precarity of Childhood; Jennifer Ang
• Chapter 12. Children in liminality: Case studies from Ireland and Iran; Annie Cummins and Amin Sharifi Isaloo
• Section IV: Rights, Responsibilities, and Policies
• Chapter 13. A Duty-Based Approach to Children's Right to Freedom from Extreme Poverty; Stamantia Liosi
• Chapter 14. Towards an Ontological Approach to Care and Child Poverty; Georgios Karakasis
• Chapter 15. Civic Tenderness as a Response to Child Poverty in America; Justin Clardy
• Chapter 16. Parenting the Parents: The Ethics of Parent-Targeted Paternalism in the Context of Anti-Poverty Policies; Douglas MacKay
• Chapter 17. Is poverty eroding parental rights in Britain? The case of child protection in the early 21st centry; Alicia-Dorothy Mornington and Alexandrine Guyard.