Children and Youth Services Review, 97, 2019, pp.3-13.
Publisher:
Elsevier
Children's material well-being, and the levels of wealth and inequality in societies within which children live, are important factors in determining outcomes. However, less is known about the extent to which these factors have an impact children's subjective well-being, especially in an internationally comparative context. This study draws on data from the Children's Worlds survey...
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Children's material well-being, and the levels of wealth and inequality in societies within which children live, are important factors in determining outcomes. However, less is known about the extent to which these factors have an impact children's subjective well-being, especially in an internationally comparative context. This study draws on data from the Children's Worlds survey, an international study of child subjective well-being, to explore links between national level indicators of wealth and inequality (GDP and Gini coefficients), individual indicators of material well-being (the material resources children report having access to), and subjective well-being. The survey covers 15 diverse countries covering the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, with samples of at least 3000 per country, ages 8, 10 and 12. Analysis takes the form of a multilevel, varying intercepts and slopes model, examining the association between financial and material resources and inequality and subjective well-being across and between countries. Findings suggest that material resources that children report are significantly associated with subjective well-being, while indicators of financial resources and inequality at the national level are not. While a significant association between material resources and subjective well-being is found across the whole sample, the magnitude of this association, and the association between school- and country-level material resources, varies markedly. Within different countries, the strongest material resources-related predictor of overall subjective well-being may be either at the individual, school or country level.
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Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 20(1), June 2010, pp.82-94.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
...social work in tune with the socio-cultural, economic, and political context of the society in which it is practiced. However, the linkages between local concerns in Asia and global concerns are inevitable. Some examples from Asian countries are used as illustrations, specifically looking at older people, poverty, children, and migrants. The conclusion is that social development involves more than
This paper reflects on the concerns of social development and the contribution of social work in Asia as one of the many forces in social change and development. In Asia, the vision in professional social work is contributing to the goal of building communities and a better society for individual betterment. Within this vision, social development is perceived as part and parcel of professional social work in tune with the socio-cultural, economic, and political context of the society in which it is practiced. However, the linkages between local concerns in Asia and global concerns are inevitable. Some examples from Asian countries are used as illustrations, specifically looking at older people, poverty, children, and migrants. The conclusion is that social development involves more than government initiatives, social philanthropy, and professional social work. Social work’s involvement in social development also includes helping to galvanise the participation of beneficiaries of social development at the local level and to engage the political will of policymakers and the business community in the global platform.
Subject terms:
migrants, older people, poverty, social policy, social work, children, community development;
Child prostitution is now being recognised as a real and serious problem, not only in Asia but also in parts of Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe. Outlines the activities of the campaign to End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (ECPAT) and the UK Coalition on Child Prostitution and Tourism (CCPT).
Child prostitution is now being recognised as a real and serious problem, not only in Asia but also in parts of Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe. Outlines the activities of the campaign to End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (ECPAT) and the UK Coalition on Child Prostitution and Tourism (CCPT).
Subject terms:
child sexual exploitation, boys, child abuse, child sexual abuse, children, girls;
Location(s):
Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, South America
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 17(2), 2018, Online only
Publisher:
Department of Social Work. University of Strathclyde.
The Family Based Care (FBC) program by SOS Children’s Villages of India is a curative alternative care model for children who have lost parental care. The program is based on the principles of necessity and appropriateness under the UNCRC and is supported by four pillars; the mother, brothers and sisters, the home and the community. The non-biological mother is responsible for a smaller group...
The Family Based Care (FBC) program by SOS Children’s Villages of India is a curative alternative care model for children who have lost parental care. The program is based on the principles of necessity and appropriateness under the UNCRC and is supported by four pillars; the mother, brothers and sisters, the home and the community. The non-biological mother is responsible for a smaller group of children, thus ensuring development and implementation of their individual care plans. Brothers and sisters create a safety net through mentoring, protecting and supporting. The family takes collective decisions which allow every child in the family to participate in the decision-making process. FBC is a time tested successful approach as it involves these multiple layers of social security along with adequate checks and balances. Under FBC, children are raised in a family/family-like environment and are better prepared to be responsible and mainstreamed adults, not only economically but also emotionally and socially. According to a UNICEF report (2003), Asia has the highest number of parentless children, at 87.6 million. Therefore, it is our individual and collective responsibility to find ways to ensure that they receive equal opportunities and a chance to realise their own potential by being raised in a raised in a family/family-like environment.
Subject terms:
children, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, looked after children, intervention, family-centred approach, families, child care, vulnerable children;
Journal of Children's Services, 5(1), March 2010, pp.43-55.
Publisher:
Emerald
This article, relying on anthropological principles, explores how the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child fits in with the diversity of ideas about childhood around the world. Child-focused civil society organisations (CSOs) working in Africa, Asia and South America have shifted from organising their work around children's needs to promoting their rights. This rights-based...
This article, relying on anthropological principles, explores how the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child fits in with the diversity of ideas about childhood around the world. Child-focused civil society organisations (CSOs) working in Africa, Asia and South America have shifted from organising their work around children's needs to promoting their rights. This rights-based framework is informed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The author explores the value of global rights, and highlights ethnographic studies investigating the lives of young people and their transition into adulthood, pointing to a diversity of ideas about childhood in different parts of the world. The author also raises the question about whether the idea of universal child rights can accommodate such varied worldviews. CSOs have often failed to take account of this diversity in the way they use rights frameworks. Research by anthropologists about children in three situations - at work, on the move and facing violence - is used here to summarise the problems caused if rights based frameworks are used without sufficient understanding of context and complexity.
Subject terms:
rights based approach, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, United Nations, young people, child protection, children, childrens rights, developing countries;