Moral Agendas for Children's Welfare

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Michael King
Psychology Press, 1999 - Health & Fitness - 257 pages

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

Images of children and morality
15
Moral campaigns for childrens welfare in
33
Liberalism or distributional justice? The morality
53
Can child abuse be defined?
74
Is male circumcision morally defensible?
90
the transcendence
105
reflections on refashioned
120
Moral agendas for psychoanalytic practice with
138
complexity child welfare
154
What is good and bad sex for children?
179
Identity religious fundamentalism and childrens
198
responding to young people with
212
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Michael King is a writer and scholar. He was born in 1945. He is New Zealand's foremost scholar on the history of the Maori people and their culture. King's book, 1000 Years of Maori History: Nga Iwi O Te Motu, examines the origins of the Maori, how their culture responded to the arrival of Europeans, and how it has continued to exist in the face of great odds. Maori: A Photographic and Social History is a comprehensive history using contemporary scholarship and a wide range of photographs to explore aspects of Maori life. King has also written God's Farthest Outpost, a study that traces Catholicism in New Zealand and chronicles the effects of French, Irish and Maori mingling on its development. King received an honorary degree as a Doctor of Literature from Victoria University of Wellington in May 1997.