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The Changing Experience of Childhood: Interdependence, Innovation Systems and Industrial Policy: Families and Divorce

The Changing Experience of Childhood: Interdependence, Innovation Systems and Industrial Policy: Families and Divorce

by Carol Smart (Author), Amanda Wade (Author), Bren Neale (Author), Carol Smart (Author), Amanda Wade (Author), Bren Neale (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

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 childrena s own accounts of family life after divorce and allows us to see these changes from their point of view. It provides a sociological perspective on how childhood may be changing and how the a democratica status of children in the family may be in the process of transformation. The implications for family and legal policy of listening to childrena s views are also set out. 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
 Pages: 230
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 01 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 0745624006
ISBN 13: 9780745624006

Media Reviews
This book is a fruit of sociologistsa 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 a rich, compelling and sometimes disturbing account of parental separation as seen by children. Martin Richards, Director, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. In this sensitive and insightful account of childrena s experiences of family change Smart and her colleagues provide detailed and evocative illustration of childrena s own views of divorce and parenting. Through the images and words of children themselves this book shows children to be active moral reasoners and negotiators in the construction of new meanings and ideas of family life post--divorce. Allison James, University of Hull The authors aim to be non--judgemental, to recognise each childa s unique perspective, and to remember the powerful constraints on childrena s lives that complicate the power imbalance between adults and young people. In these repsects, their work acts as a reminder and a reaffirmation of high standards for policymakers and practitioners . Pricilla Alderson, Institute of Education, University of London. This book is of signal importance for all practitioners and policymakers concerned with childrena s issues and in particular their role in legal proceedings Friona Raitt, Scolag Legal Journal
Author Bio
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.