Connecting Children: Care and Family Life in Later Childhood

✍ Scribed by Kalwant Bhopal, Julia Brannen, Ellen Heptinstall

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different ways both in the household but also in their wider kinship networks. The children studied reflect upon family life and especially upon situations where their own family lives change dramatically, such as when parents divorce or are unable to care for them. This book will be of interest to those working in education, social work, child care, counselling, social policy and childhood studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 7
1 Themes and concepts......Page 10
2 Children’s beliefs about care......Page 34
3 Children’s families and social ties......Page 56
4 Children’s accounts of family change......Page 77
5 The importance of mothers and fathers......Page 102
6 The importance of siblings......Page 124
7 The importance of grandparents, relatives, friends and others......Page 139
8 Children’s contribution to family life......Page 163
9 Children and mothers’ regulation regulation......Page 187
10 Conclusions......Page 211
Appendix......Page 223
References......Page 231
Index......Page 238