The ecology of childhood : how our changing world threatens children's rights / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse.

New York : New York University Press, 2020.

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Families, law, and society series.
NYU scholarship online.

This resource uses the ecological model of child development together with ethnographic and comparative studies of two small villages, in Italy and America, as its framework for examining the well-being of children in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Global forces, far from being distant and abstract, are revealed as wreaking havoc in children's environments even in economically advanced countries. Falling birth rates, deteriorating labour conditions, fraying safety nets, rising rates of child poverty, and a surge in racism and populism in Europe and America are explored.

Also issued in print: 2020.
This resource uses the ecological model of child development together with ethnographic and comparative studies of two small villages, in Italy and America, as its framework for examining the well-being of children in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Global forces, far from being distant and abstract, are revealed as wreaking havoc in children's environments even in economically advanced countries. Falling birth rates, deteriorating labour conditions, fraying safety nets, rising rates of child poverty, and a surge in racism and populism in Europe and America are explored.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 3, 2020).

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Print version :

University Press Scholarship Online.
Oxford Academic.

English

Specialized.

9780814784655 (ebook)

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