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Child poverty : aspiring to survive /
Placing children's experiences, needs and concerns at the centre of its examination of contemporary policies and political discourses surrounding poverty in childhood, this book examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological factors common across developed nations and forge...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL :
Policy Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction; How do children view poverty?; Why child poverty?; The state of child poverty; So, what is (child) poverty?; Income and material deprivation; Income inequality; What causes child poverty?; Consequences of child poverty; The children at greater risk of poverty; The rest of the book
- 2. Context; Introduction; Profile of child poverty internationally; Profile of child poverty in the UK and its four nations; Causes of child poverty; Poverty is dynamic; Children at increased risk of poverty; Money; Government policies that affect child poverty
- 3. Family; Introduction; What is family?; Pathologising low-income families; To whom are low-income families being compared?; Parents or mothers?; Living in a family on a low income; The cycle of advantage; What it all means for children; Misunderstandings of child poverty; Beyond individualised accounts of poverty; Impacts of poverty on children and families
- 4. Lone parenthood; Introduction; Lone parents are not a homogenous group; Lone mothers and poverty; Child wellbeing in lone-mother families; The stigma of lone motherhood; Lone mothers and employment; Non-resident fathers; Targeting policies at lone mothers; Childcare; Child maintenance; The impacts of child maintenance; (Non- ) compliance with child maintenance; Flipping the thinking
- 5. Education; Introduction; School costs; Masking of poverty; Poor children's experiences of education; Poverty of aspirations; Poor parents' experiences of education; Teachers' (mis)understandings; Policy; Flipping the thinking
- 6. In and out of work; Introduction; The dominant status and values attached to employment; The desire to work; The role of employment in (not) lifting families out of poverty (in-work poverty)
- Youth employment/unemployment; How policy interacts with employment; Flipping the thinking
- 7. Health; Introduction; Health inequalities; Child health and poverty; Children's mental health and poverty; Protective factors for child mental health and poverty; Parental mental health and poverty; The consequences on children of living with a parent with a mental health condition; Stigma; Protective factors for the children of parents with poor mental health; Flipping the thinking
- 8. Ethnicity and disability; Introduction; Ethnicity; Ethnicity and education; Ethnicity and poverty; Ethnicity and employment; Rates of employment; Rates of unemployment; Profile of employment; Ethnicity and discrimination; Young BME and (un/under)employment; Disability; Disability and poverty rates; Profile of childhood disability; Disabled children's views; Changes for disabled people in the UK; Impacts on disabled adults; Flipping the thinking
- 9. Adversity and poverty; Introduction; Young carers; Poverty and young carers; The effects of caring on young carers; Young carers as a hidden population; Policy and service support for young carers; Looked-after children; Looked-after children and poverty; Looked-after children's outcomes; Refugee and asylum-seeking children; Refugee and asylum-seeking children and poverty; Refugee and asylum-seeking children and outcomes; Refugee and asylum-seeking children and protective factors; Adverse childhood experiences; The problem with the original ACE study; ACEs and poverty; Severe multiple deprivations in adulthood; Flipping the thinking on ACEs
- 10. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index.