Children in Society: Politics, Policies and Interventions

INTRODUCTION

Protecting children, projecting childhood – Craig Newnes

PART ONE: JUST KIDS?

Children and childhood constructed – Craig Newnes

Constructing innocence and risk as a rationale for intervention – Melissa Burkett

The Stolen Generations: The forced removal of First Peoples children in Australia – Pat Dudgeon, Carmen Cubillo and Abigail Bray

Children and austerity – Carl Harris

Single motherhood – Laura Golding

Considering the relationship between vulnerability and child sexual exploitation – Adele Gladman

PART TWO: JUST SERVICES?

The rights of parents and children in regard to children receiving psychiatric diagnoses and drugs – Peter Breggin

'Learning-disabled children' – Katherine Runswick-Cole and Dan Goodley

Children and electroconvulsive therapy – Craig Newnes

Looking after children: Love, meaning and connection – Carolyn McQueen

Don’t Blame the Parents: Is it possible to develop non-blaming models of parental causation of distress? – Rudi Dallos