ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|11 pages

Introduction

chapter 4|16 pages

Liberalism or distributional justice?

The morality of child welfare laws

chapter 7|11 pages

Meditations on parental love

The transcendence of the rights/welfare divide

chapter 8|13 pages

Justice and childhood

Reflections on refashioned boundaries 1

chapter 10|19 pages

With justice in mind

Complexity, child welfare and the law

chapter 13|14 pages

Failing children

Responding to young people with ‘behavioural difficulties’