Description
This handbook brings together 26 scholarly contributions examining contemporary challenges and developments in family welfare, child wellbeing, and youth inclusion across diverse global contexts. The volume explores how social, economic, cultural, and policy factors shape the lives of families, children, and young people, while addressing questions of care, protection, inequality, participation, and social development. Offering multidisciplinary and internationally informed perspectives, it highlights both the challenges facing families and younger generations and the policies and practices that can support their wellbeing and inclusion.
Table of Contents
Section I: Family Welfare and Parenting in Contemporary Societies.- Chapter 1: Combining Economic Work and Motherhood: Challenges Faced by Women in Sub-Saharan Africa Challenges Faced by Women in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 2: Parenting and LGBT A Psychosocial Exploration.- Chapter 3: Defining “Good Enough” Parenting Ambiguities When Immigrant Parents Migrate to Interventionist and Child-Centric Western Countries – The Case of Norway.- Chapter 4: The Commodification of Family the Multilayered Harms of Surrogacy.- Chapter 5: The Social Problem of Lone Mothers in Europe.- Chapter 6: Analysis of the Most Significant Trends in the Transformation of Modern Family.- Chapter 7: Family Socioeconomic Inequalities Between Majorities and Minorities Across the Globe Implication for Policy Practice.- Chapter 8: Parenting Styles and Development New Challenges.- Chapter 9: The Influence of the Image of the Current Situation in the Family on the Formation of the Child’s Identity.- Chapter 10: Perceived Accessibility of Public Services Predicts Help Seeking for Couple-Relationship Problems a Comparative Study from Norway and Poland.- Chapter 11: Digital Parenting in Africa A Complex Interplay of Culture, Technology, and Child-Rearing.- Chapter 12: The Effect of a First-Born Child’s Gender on Domestic Violence against Women: Evidence from Turkey.- Chapter 13: Gender Dynamics and Their Impact on Rural Fertility, Mortality, and Agricultural Systems A Path Forward for Policy and Research.- Chapter 14: Assessing Gender Discrimination and Inequality in Local Government in Bangladesh.- Section II: Child Welfare, Development, and Protection.- Chapter 15:Cumulative Family Disadvantage, Child Development, and Underachievement as a Global Problem Implications for Research and Social Policy.- Chapter 16:Foster Care Barriers and Challenges for Unaccompanied Minors in the Republic of Cyprus.- Chapter 17: Children’s Experiences of Parental Incarceration.- Chapter 18: Kinship Care Support for Children Whose Parents Have Mental Illness in Ghana Identifying a Culturally Informed Solution.- Chapter 19: Engaging Fathers in the Childcare Through Paternity Leave in Bangladesh Lessons from Nordic Countries.- Chapter 20: Towards an Integrated Model for the Community-Based Childhood Vulnerability Governance in Zimbabwe an Appreciative Inquiry Perspective.- Section III: Youth Welfare, Inclusion, and Social Development.- Chapter 21: Forced Migrant Youth in Transit Data Gaps, Mental Health Needs, and Approaches to Psychosocial Support.- Chapter 22: Still Largely Untapped the Youth in Disaster Risk Governance in the Philippines Post-2015.- Chapter 23: Exploring Strategies of Overcoming Social Exclusion Among Zimbabwean Youths.- Chapter 24: The Challenges of Youth Opportunities in the Political Structure of Pakistan.- Chapter 25: The Scourge of Domestic Violence in India Looking Back and the Way Ahead.- Chapter 26: Life Projects, Supports, and Challenges for Young People Leaving Residential Care in Portugal.
