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The Changing Experience of Childhood. Families and Divorce.
Smart, Carol; Neale, Dr. Bren; Wade, Amanda
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Paperback. Family life in modern societies is being transformed by high rates of divorce. Such changes have given rise to concerns that the quality of family life for children has deteriorated and that children are damaged by the choices their parents are making. It is possible, however, that children and families are more resilient than this. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
Family life in modern societies is being transformed by high rates of divorce. Such changes have given rise to concerns that the quality of family life for children has deteriorated and that children are damaged by the choices their parents are making. It is possible, however, that children and families are more resilient than this. Rather than witnessing the end of the family and the end of contented childhood, we could be seeing the emergence of post-divorce families and new experiences of childhood based on these new arrangements.
Family life in modern societies is being transformed by high rates of divorce. Such changes have given rise to concerns that the quality of family life for children has deteriorated and that children are damaged by the choices their parents are making. It is possible, however, that children and families are more resilient than this. Rather than witnessing the end of the family and the end of contented childhood, we could be seeing the emergence of post-divorce families and new experiences of childhood based on these new arrangements.
This path-breaking book explores children's own accounts ... Read more
The Changing Experience of Childhood will be of interest to all those in academic and public life concerned about the future of the family.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745624006
SKU
V9780745624006
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About Smart, Carol; Neale, Dr. Bren; Wade, Amanda
Carol Smart is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and Director of the Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood. Bren Neale and Amanda Wade are Senior Research Fellows, University of Leeds.
Reviews for The Changing Experience of Childhood. Families and Divorce.
"This book is a fruit of sociologists' discovery of the child. The authors characterize past research in the field as "harmism" which examined children only in terms of the damage that parental divorce might do to them. In contrast, they set out to see children as people in their own right with voices that should be heard. The result is ... Read more