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
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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