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Theoretical and Empirical Insights into Child and Family Poverty

Cross National Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Elizabeth Fernandez

    1. School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

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  2. Anat Zeira

    1. Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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  3. Tiziano Vecchiato

    1. Fondazione Emanuela Zancan Onlus, Centro Studi e Ricerca Sociale, Padova, Italy

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  4. Cinzia Canali

    1. Fondazione Emanuela Zancan Onlus, Centro Studi e Ricerca Sociale, Padova, Italy

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  • Brings together the voices of different stakeholders, children and families, practitioners, policy makers and researchers
  • Takes a child rights based approach to examine inequities
  • Draws attention to entrenched inequalities and disadvantage of Indigenous children and families

Part of the book series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 10)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Understanding Child and Family Poverty: An Introduction to Some Key Themes and Issues

    • Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 1-10

  3. Child Poverty in the International Context

    • Elizabeth Fernandez, Ioana Ramia
    Pages 11-39

  4. Not Just Statistics: Making Children’s Poverty More Visible

    • Peter Saunders
    Pages 41-57

  5. Child Poverty and Child Well-Being in International Perspective

    • Jonathan Bradshaw
    Pages 59-70

  6. Why Are Poor Children Always with Us? Theory, Ideology and Policy for Understanding Child Poverty

    • Michael Wearing, Elizabeth Fernandez
    Pages 71-96

  7. Disadvantage, Equity and Children’s Rights in Twenty-First Century Australasia

    • Marie Connolly
    Pages 97-109

  8. Children’s Subjective Well-Being in Disadvantaged Situations

    • Carme Montserrat, Ferran Casas, James Ferreira Moura Jr.
    Pages 111-126

  9. Child Poverty in Germany: Conceptual Aspects and Core Findings

    • Sabine Andresen, Susann Fegter, Klaus Hurrelmann, Monika Pupeter, Ulrich Schneekloth
    Pages 127-140

  10. Poor for How Long? Chronic Versus Transient Child Poverty in the United States

    • Sara Kimberlin, Jill Duerr Berrick
    Pages 141-158

  11. Child Poverty Reduction in Brazil: Reversing Bismarck?

    • Armando Barrientos, Amanda Telias Simunovic
    Pages 159-173

  12. Poverty and Social Exclusion of Children and Families in Italy and Europe: Some Comparisons

    • Cinzia Canali, Devis Geron
    Pages 175-184

  13. Poverty in Italy and Generative Welfare Approach

    • Tiziano Vecchiato
    Pages 185-200

  14. A Family-Centred Approach in Helping Poor Children in Hong Kong

    • Joyce Lai Chong Ma
    Pages 201-215

  15. Young People at Risk of Lifelong Poverty: Youth Homelessness in Australia

    • Patricia McNamara
    Pages 217-238

  16. Poor Children, Poor Services, Poor Outcomes: Child Poverty and Its Impact on Referral and Placement in Public Care System in Hungary

    • Maria Herczog
    Pages 239-256

  17. In What Ways Might Poverty Contribute to Maltreatment?

    • Marian Brandon
    Pages 257-271

  18. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families in Australia: Poverty and Child Welfare Involvement

    • Clare Tilbury
    Pages 273-284

  19. Family Poverty: Reviewing the Evidence for an Integrated Community-Based Practice

    • Anita Lightburn, Chris Warren-Adamson
    Pages 285-301

  20. Reducing Poverty and Investing in Children and Families

    • Elizabeth Fernandez, Anat Zeira, Tiziano Vecchiato, Cinzia Canali
    Pages 303-311
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About this book

This book brings together a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives on conceptualization, measurement, multidimensional impacts and policy and service responses to address child and family poverty. It illuminates issues and trends through country level chapters, thus shedding light on dynamics of poverty in different jurisdictions. The book is structured into three sections: The first includes introductory chapters canvassing key debates around definition, conceptualization, measurement and theoretical and ideological positions. The second section covers impacts of poverty on specific domains of children’s and families’ experience using snapshots from specific countries/geographic regions. The third section focuses on programs, policies and interventions and addresses poverty and its impacts. It showcases specific interventions, programs and policies aimed at responding to children and families and communities and how they are or might be evaluated. Cross national case studies and evaluations illustrate the diversity of approaches and outcomes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

    Elizabeth Fernandez

  • Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Anat Zeira

  • Fondazione Emanuela Zancan Onlus, Centro Studi e Ricerca Sociale, Padova, Italy

    Tiziano Vecchiato, Cinzia Canali

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Theoretical and Empirical Insights into Child and Family Poverty

  • Book Subtitle: Cross National Perspectives

  • Editors: Elizabeth Fernandez, Anat Zeira, Tiziano Vecchiato, Cinzia Canali

  • Series Title: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17506-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-17505-8Published: 25 June 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36025-6Published: 09 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17506-5Published: 04 June 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1879-5196

  • Series E-ISSN: 1879-520X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 319

  • Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Child Well-being, Maternal and Child Health, Human Rights

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