Theoretical and Empirical Insights into Child and Family Poverty

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

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.

• Child poverty and wellbeing
• Child poverty in the international context
• Childhood rights and needs in 21st century Australasia
• Children’s centred assessments of their conditions of living
• Children’s experiences and parents conceptions
• Children’s subjective wellbeing in disadvantaged situations
• Cross National Perspectives
• Poor People
• Poverty and child welfare involvement
• Poverty in Italy
• Theory and ideology shaping poverty
• Understanding Child and Family Poverty
• maternal and child health

• 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

Policies and ethics