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Author:   Julia Brannen ,  Margaret O'Brien
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge Falmer
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9780750704755

ISBN 10:   0750704756
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   23 January 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The postmodern child, Chris Jenks; the politics of children's rights, Jeremy Roche; strategies and structures - towards a new perspective on children's experiences of family life, Allison James and Alan Prout; the challenge in child research - from being to doing, Anne Solberg; demographic change and the family situation of children, Lynda Clarke; children's constructions of family and kinship, Margaret O'Brien, Pam Alldred and Deborah Jones; helping out - children's labour participation in Chinese take-away businesses in Britain, Miri Song; discourses of adolescence - young people's independence and autonomy within families, Julia Brannen; conceptualising parenting from the standpoint of children - relationship and transition in the life course, Pat Allatt; the economic circumstances of children in ten countries, Steven Kennedy, Peter Whiteford and Jonathan Bradshaw; family, state and social policy for children in Greece, Theodoros Papadopoulos; the crumbling bridges between childhood and adulthood, Hilary Land; teenage pregnancy - do social policies make a difference?, Peter Selman and Caroline Glendinning.

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""I would suggest that anyone working in this area reads this book, its important contribution to an ongoing debate cannot be ignored."" -Sociology

I would suggest that anyone working in this area reads this book, its important contribution to an ongoing debate cannot be ignored. <br>-Sociology <br>

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Julia Brannen, Margaret O'Brien

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