Moral Agendas For Children's WelfareMichael King 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 | 1 |
2 Images of children and morality | 12 |
3 Moral campaigns for childrens welfare in the nineteenth century | 25 |
4 Liberalism or distributional justice? | 41 |
5 Can child abuse be defined? | 57 |
6 Is male circumcision morally defensible? | 69 |
7 Meditations on parental love | 81 |
8 Justice and childhood | 92 |
10 With justice in mind | 117 |
11 What is good and bad sex for children? | 136 |
12 Identity religious fundamentalism and childrens welfare | 151 |
13 Failing children | 161 |
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9 Moral agendas for psychoanalytic practice with children and families | 105 |
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