Children & Childhood Books

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1. China's One-Child Policy and Multiple Caregiving

   Raising Little Suns in Xiamen

   By Esther Goh

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book explores the effects of China’s one child policy on modern Chinese families. It is widely thought that such a policy has contributed to the creation of a generation of little emperors or little suns spoiled by their parents and by the grandparents who have been recruited to care for the...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Child Protection in Development

   Edited by Michael Bourdillon, William Myers

   Series: Development in Practice Books

   Every day millions of children in developing countries face adversities of many kinds, yet there is a shortage of sound evidence concerning their plight and an urgent need to identify the most appropriate and effective policy responses from among the multiple approaches that exist. This collection...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World

   Edited by Paula S. Fass

   Series: Routledge Histories

   The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in the West from antiquity to the present day. By broadly incorporating the research in the field of Childhood Studies, the book explores the major advances...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Child Protection in Development

   Edited by Michael Bourdillon, William Myers

   Series: Development in Practice Books

   Every day millions of children in developing countries face adversities of many kinds, yet there is a shortage of sound evidence concerning their plight and an urgent need to identify the most appropriate and effective policy responses from among the multiple approaches that exist. This collection...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Organised Sexual Abuse

   By Michael Salter

   Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon. Since the early 1980s, social workers and mental health professionals around the globe have encountered clients reporting sexual abuse by organized groups or networks. These allegations have been...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Transnational Migration and Childhood

   Edited by Naomi Tyrrell, Allen White, Caitriona Ni Laoire, Fina Carpena Mendez

   This book challenges the adult-centric tendencies of migration research and policy which often overlooks children and young people’s own experiences of migration. A wide range of international contributors provide careful analysis of the situations of children in contemporary transnational...

   Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
7. The Global History of Childhood Reader

   Edited by Heidi Morrison

   Series: Routledge Readers in History

   The Global History of Childhood Reader provides an essential collection of chapters and articles on the global history of childhood. The Reader is structured thematically so as to provide both a representative sampling of the historiography as well as an overview of the key issues of the field,...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
8. Child Pornography

   Law and Policy

   By Alisdair A. Gillespie

   Child Pornography: Law and Policy draws on interdisciplinary work in order to critically address the law relating to child pornography. Child pornography is recognized as a specific form of child abuse and there are now many national, and international, efforts to tackle it. Yet despite...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Professional Issues in Child and Youth Care Practice

   By Kiaras Gharabaghi

   This book provides an overview of the core professional issues in the field of child and youth care practice. The author explores themes ranging from relationships and the exploration of Self to career building and field-specific approaches to management. The book is written from a pragmatic...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Child Welfare Practice with Immigrant Children and Families

    Edited by Alan Dettlaff, Rowena Fong

    Children in immigrant families represent nearly one-fourth of all children living in the United States. As this population of children has increased, so has their representation among children involved in child welfare and related systems. Once immigrant families come to the attention of these...

    Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge