Overview
- Promotes much-needed attention on the character of the well-being of children
- Deals with a complex and important issue, hitherto understudied
- Reveals the richness of the topic and invites further exploration
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 9)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Children’s Well-Being and Autonomy
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Children’s Well-Being and Authority
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Children’s Well-Being and Policy
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Keywords
- Child Well-Being and the Family-Dilemma
- Children’s Rights, Well-Being, and Sexual Agency
- Paternalism in Education and the Future
- The Intrinsic Goods of Childhood
- Utilitarianism, Welfare, Children
- Well-Being and Autonomy
- child autonomy
- concept of child well-being
- ethics and children
- ethics child well-being
- normal child
- philosophy child well-being
- maternal and child health
About this book
This book presents new findings that deal with different facets of the well-being of children and their relevance to the proper treatment of children. The well-being of children is considered against the background of a wide variety of legal, political, medical, educational and familial perspectives. The book addresses diverse issues from a range of disciplinary perspectives using a variety of methods. It has three major sections with the essays in each section loosely organized about a common general theme. The first section focuses on issues concerning the relation between children’s well-being and autonomy or agency. The second section deals with child well-being insofar as the limits of parental authority are concerned. The third section has a more applied orientation and addresses a variety of public policy controversies involving the interpretation of children’s well-being.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alexander Bagattini is assistant professor in Philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf. His areas of research and teaching are in the ethical implications of the concept of child well-being, children’s rights, philosophy of education and environmental ethics. He is also principal investigator in the interdisciplinary research project “Child Well-Being as a Collective Interpretive Pattern” which is funded by the BMBF (German Federal Ministry for Education and Research / Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung).
Colin M. Macleod is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research focuses on issues in contemporary moral, political and legal theory, with a special focus on distributive justice and equality; children, families and justice and democratic ethics. He is the author of Liberalism, Justice and Markets (Oxford University Press, 1998) and the editor of Justice and Equality (University of Calgary Press, 2012) and (with David Archard) of The Moral and Political Status of Children (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Nature of Children's Well-Being
Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice
Editors: Alexander Bagattini, Colin Macleod
Series Title: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9252-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9251-6Published: 10 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0050-2Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9252-3Published: 30 September 2014
Series ISSN: 1879-5196
Series E-ISSN: 1879-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 262
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Maternal and Child Health, Ethics