The Child and the State in India

The Child and the State in India
Author: Myron Weiner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780691018980

India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school, as have the governments of all developed and many developing countries? To answer this question, this major comparative study first looks at why and when other states have intervened to protect children against parents and employers. By examining Europe of the nineteenth century, the United States, Japan, and a number of developing countries, Myron Weiner rejects the argument that children were removed from the labor force only when the incomes of the poor rose and employers needed a more skilled labor force. Turning to India, the author shows that its policies arise from fundamental beliefs, embedded in the culture, rather than from economic conditions. Identifying the specific values that elsewhere led educators, social activists, religious leaders, trade unionists, military officers, and government bureaucrats to make education compulsory and to end child labor, he explains why similar groups in India do not play the same role.

The Child The Parent And The State

The Child The Parent And The State
Author: James Bryant Conant
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781015494794

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The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel

The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel
Author: Laura C. Berry
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 224
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780813934570

The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society. Berry examines the nineteenth-century fascination with victimized children to show how novels and reform writings reorganize ideas of self and society as narratives of childhood distress. Focusing on classic childhood stories such as Oliver Twist and novels that are not conventionally associated with particular social problems, such as Dickens's Dombey and Son, the Brontë sisters' Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Adam Bede, Berry shows the ways in which fiction that purports to deal with private life, particularly the domain of the family, nevertheless intervenes in public and social debates. At the same time she examines medical, legal, charitable, and social-relief writings to show how these documents provide crucial sources in the development of social welfare and modern representations of the family.

Raising Government Children

Raising Government Children
Author: Catherine E. Rymph
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469635658

In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of "welfare" that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents' relationship to public welfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today's child support networks.

Children, Family and the State

Children, Family and the State
Author: Thomas, Nigel
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2002-10-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1861344481

Children, family and the state examines different theories of childhood, children's rights and the relationship between children, parents and the state.

Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Author: Ziba Vaghri
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2022-01-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030846474

This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. For each article of the UNCRC, the authors explore the nature and scope of corresponding State obligations, and identify the main features that need to be taken into consideration when assessing a State’s progressive implementation of the UNCRC. This analysis considers which aspects of a given right are most important to track, in order to monitor States' implementation of any given right, and whether there is any resultant change in the lives of children. This approach transforms the narrative of legal international standards concerning a given right into a set of characteristics that ensure no aspect of said right is overlooked. The book develops a clear and comprehensive understanding of the UNCRC that can be used as an introduction to the rights and principles it contains, and to identify directions for future policy and strategy development in compliance with the UNCRC. As such, it offers an invaluable reference guide for researchers and students in the field of childhood and children’s rights studies, as well as a wide range of professionals and organisations concerned with the subject.

Child of the State

Child of the State
Author: Catherine Lea
Publisher: Brakelight Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"He's first, you're next." That's the message someone scribbled on a photo of Stacy May Charms' six-year-old son, two days before her release from prison. Stacy knows why. She doesn't know who. When Stacy May breaks parole and goes on the run only two hours after her release, Elizabeth McClaine's reputation is left in ruins. Contracted to oversee Stacey's early release through the governor's new initiative, Elizabeth’s social and political standing rests on Stacy's success. If Elizabeth is to clear her name, and save Stacy, she must figure out why Stacy ran, and who she's running from. And all the clues point back to those who were supposed to be saving her.

The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse

The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse
Author: Nancy Whittier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0199783314

The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse is the first study of activism against child sexual abuse, tracing its emergence in feminist anti-rape efforts, its development into mainstream self-help, and its entry into mass media and public policy. Nancy Whittier deftly charts the development of the movement's "therapeutic politics," demonstrating that activists viewed tactics for changing emotions and one's sense of self as necessary for widespread social change and combined them with efforts to change institutions and the state. A lucid and moving account, this book draws powerful lessons about the transformative potential of therapeutic politics, their connection to institutions, and the processes of incomplete social change that characterize American politics today.

State Data Profiles

State Data Profiles
Author: United States. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Data Systems Division
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1973
Genre: Agricultural price supports
ISBN: