Description
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
1.Themes and Concepts 2.Children's Beliefs about Care 3. Children's Families and Social Ties: Meanings and structures 4.Children's Accounts of Family Change 5.The Importance of Mothers and Fathers: Children's views and experiences 6.The Importance of Siblings 7.The Importance of Grandparents, Relatives, Friends and Others 8.Children's Contribution to Family Life 9.Children and Mother's Regulation 10. Conclusions
