Child Poverty

Aspiring to Survive

Treanor, Morag C.

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Jahr: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781447334699
• Thema: Social Sciences
• Thema: Poverty in Sociology

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are fiercely debated and contested, they are all too often misrepresented in policy and media discourses. Seeking to redress this problem, Treanor places children's experiences, needs and concerns at the centre of this critical examination of the contemporary policies and political discourses surrounding poverty in childhood. She examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological factors common across developed nations, and their impacts, to interrogate how poverty in childhood is conceptualised and operationalised in policy and to forge a radical pathway for an alternative future.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Context
• 3 Family
• 4 Lone parenthood
• 5 Education
• 6 In and out of work
• 7 Health
• 8 Ethnicity and disability
• 9 Adversity and poverty
• 10 Conclusions
• Notes
• References
• Index