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Putting a face on teenage pregnancy helps us to look past stereotypes to understand the challenges of teen parenthood.

Through the use of both quantitative and qualitative data from Australian and US research, this paper is an initial exploration of polyamorous parenting, particularly in relation to schooling and negotiating the implications of heteronormative monogamy on their children's lives. The paper calls for more research and support of polyamorous families as these families are still largely invisible and falling 'between the cracks' of heteronormative monogamous nuclear families and the increasingly visible lesbian and gay families.

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous variation in child care costs caused by a Swedish child care reform, we are able to identify the causal effect of child care costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of mothers is very high. A typical household planning another child experienced a reduction in expected future child care costs of SEK 106,000 (USD 17,800). This reduction resulted in 3-5 more child births per 1,000 women during an 18 month period, which corresponds to a 4-6 per cent increase in the birth rate.

"For further reading": p. 31. ; "This pamphlet is based mainly on Children in a democracy, the general report adopted by the White House conference on children in a democracy, January, 1940, and the research documents prepared for that conference."--p. 1. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Bridging theory and practice -- Part I: The Nature and Location of the Debate -- Essay 1 : The Many Environments of the Child -- Essay 2: Different Times, Different Children -- Essay 3: Commonalities and Variations in Perceptions about Children -- Essay 4: Different Debates, Different Children -- Essay 5: The Debate in Practice: the Case of UNICEF -- Part II: Learning from the Debate: The Need for Change -- Essay 6: Tools for a Better Understanding -- Essay 7: The Need to Rethink Development -- Essay 8: Recognizing the Citizen Child -- Bibliography -- Index

This paper considers dilemmas around 'value' and the 'valuing' of children and childhood(s) in schools. I argue that in neo‐liberal contexts, processes of children's identity making become aligned with the idea of the corporate citizen – value and worth derived from the capacity to produce, excel, self‐regulate as well as consume in an ever expanding marketplace. Taking the positioning of migrant children as an exemplar, the paper explores the tensions in pedagogic practices between the valuing of migrant children and their 'added value' that is communicated through spheres of re/action in schools. The paper argues for education that is radical and strategic; careful and nurturing. In its absence, being valued differently involves reproducing negative patterns in a circular dialectical loop that naturalises under achievement of migrant children and other children at risk, to deficiencies in culture and identity.

Discusses experiences of child soldiers, children's perceptions of war and peace, international law, war toys, gangs, street children, refugee youth, racism, conscription, and the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC); 13 articles.

Images of suffering children capture the moral imperative of humanitarian action. As a quintessential embodiment o victimhood, decontextualized images of childhood vulnerability articulate specific aesthetics, emotions, and politics that trigger feelings of compassion, mobilize donors' solidarity, and persuade public opinion of the need for immediate lifesaving actions, including those of a military nature. However, this image of children is deeply entangled in the civilizational trajectories of Western modernity and sets out a Eurocentric standard of childhood that at times contrasts with local cultural notions of "childhood" and children's material conditions in contexts outside Europe and North America. This dictionary entry discusses critically humanitarian representations of children in light of Southeast Asian, African and Latin-American de-centered constructions of childhood

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Vicious Childhood -- 2 Fagin's Academy -- 3 Crime and Punishment -- 4 Prison Life -- 5 The Hulks -- 6 Parkhurst: The Children's Prison -- 7 Transported Beyond the Seas -- 8 Missions of Mercy -- 9 A Leap in the Dark -- 10 Off to the Reformatory! -- 11 Bad Girls -- 12 Perishing and Dangerous Children -- 13 Towards Understanding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

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