Allyn Fives
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781784994327
- eISBN:
- 9781526128614
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784994327.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
Is parents’ power over their children legitimate? And what role do both theoretical analysis and practical judgement play when we make such normative evaluations? While this book adds to the growing ...
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Is parents’ power over their children legitimate? And what role do both theoretical analysis and practical judgement play when we make such normative evaluations? While this book adds to the growing literature on parents, children, families, and the State, it does so by focusing on one issue, the legitimacy of parents’ power. It also takes seriously the challenge posed by moral pluralism, and considers the role of both theoretical rationality and practical judgement in resolving moral dilemmas associated with parental power.
This book makes a number of conceptual and methodological innovations. While parental power is usually conceptualised as form of paternalism, this book shows that non-paternalistic parental power can be legitimate as well. While parental power is often assumed to involve interference with children’s liberty, in fact there is a plurality of forms of parental power. And while political theorists offer general rules to resolve dilemmas arising between competing moral claims, it is demonstrated here that, in the evaluation of parental power, practical judgements are required in specific cases. A number of such cases of parental power are explored here at length, including parental licenses, children’s informed consent, and civic education.
The primary intended market for this book is advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and established academics, in particular those with an interest in practical and applied ethics, contemporary political theory, moral theory, social theory, the sociology of childhood, political sociology, social work, and social policy.Less
Is parents’ power over their children legitimate? And what role do both theoretical analysis and practical judgement play when we make such normative evaluations? While this book adds to the growing literature on parents, children, families, and the State, it does so by focusing on one issue, the legitimacy of parents’ power. It also takes seriously the challenge posed by moral pluralism, and considers the role of both theoretical rationality and practical judgement in resolving moral dilemmas associated with parental power.
This book makes a number of conceptual and methodological innovations. While parental power is usually conceptualised as form of paternalism, this book shows that non-paternalistic parental power can be legitimate as well. While parental power is often assumed to involve interference with children’s liberty, in fact there is a plurality of forms of parental power. And while political theorists offer general rules to resolve dilemmas arising between competing moral claims, it is demonstrated here that, in the evaluation of parental power, practical judgements are required in specific cases. A number of such cases of parental power are explored here at length, including parental licenses, children’s informed consent, and civic education.
The primary intended market for this book is advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and established academics, in particular those with an interest in practical and applied ethics, contemporary political theory, moral theory, social theory, the sociology of childhood, political sociology, social work, and social policy.
Ann Burack-Weiss
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231151849
- eISBN:
- 9780231525336
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231151849.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
A poetic and poignant discussion of memory: Memories of mothers. Memories of fathers. The lifelong influence of memories of parents.
A poetic and poignant discussion of memory: Memories of mothers. Memories of fathers. The lifelong influence of memories of parents.
Jane Gray, Ruth Geraghty, and David Ralph
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719091513
- eISBN:
- 9781526109972
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091513.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
Family Rhythms is a comprehensive, user-friendly text that opens a new window on family change in Ireland. The authors draw on major new qualitative longitudinal datasets to develop a rich account of ...
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Family Rhythms is a comprehensive, user-friendly text that opens a new window on family change in Ireland. The authors draw on major new qualitative longitudinal datasets to develop a rich account of continuity and change in the textures, meanings and rhythms of family life in Ireland since the early years of the state. Consistent with the recent turn to more inductive approaches in family studies, the book focuses on changing everyday practices in different family life stages: childhood, early adulthood, the middle years and grandparenthood. Readers acquire insights on the diverse experiences of family life from different historical and generational points of view and on the associated challenges for social policy. Throughout, qualitative findings are placed in the context of societal shifts in demography, value systems, household economies, and patterns of kinship, community and public life. For each life stage, the Irish experience is also placed in a comparative European context. The book includes a state-of-the-art introduction to contemporary sociological perspectives on family life and introduces readers to the wealth of historical and contemporary research on family life in Ireland. Highlighted panels invite readers to look in more detail at selected landmark Irish studies and to explore extracts from the qualitative data for themselves.Less
Family Rhythms is a comprehensive, user-friendly text that opens a new window on family change in Ireland. The authors draw on major new qualitative longitudinal datasets to develop a rich account of continuity and change in the textures, meanings and rhythms of family life in Ireland since the early years of the state. Consistent with the recent turn to more inductive approaches in family studies, the book focuses on changing everyday practices in different family life stages: childhood, early adulthood, the middle years and grandparenthood. Readers acquire insights on the diverse experiences of family life from different historical and generational points of view and on the associated challenges for social policy. Throughout, qualitative findings are placed in the context of societal shifts in demography, value systems, household economies, and patterns of kinship, community and public life. For each life stage, the Irish experience is also placed in a comparative European context. The book includes a state-of-the-art introduction to contemporary sociological perspectives on family life and introduces readers to the wealth of historical and contemporary research on family life in Ireland. Highlighted panels invite readers to look in more detail at selected landmark Irish studies and to explore extracts from the qualitative data for themselves.
Miri Song
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479840540
- eISBN:
- 9781479843367
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479840540.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
While there has been significant growth in studies of “multiracial,” or “mixed-race,” individuals, very few have investigated the experiences of the descendants of multiracial individuals—the ...
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While there has been significant growth in studies of “multiracial,” or “mixed-race,” individuals, very few have investigated the experiences of the descendants of multiracial individuals—the so-called multigeneration multiracials. As interracial unions and disparate types of multiracial people continue to increase in many societies, what effect does this have on our understanding of racial categories and boundaries? How do multiracial people think about race in relation to themselves and their children? Using in-depth interviews, this book investigates how and why multiracial people racially identify and raise their children in particular ways, as well as their attitudes toward the transmission of minority ancestries to their children. Delving into parents’ concerns about racism and the strategies they use to address it with their children, the book also explores their thoughts about their children’s futures in a society in which mixing and mixed-race people are increasingly part of the mainstream.Less
While there has been significant growth in studies of “multiracial,” or “mixed-race,” individuals, very few have investigated the experiences of the descendants of multiracial individuals—the so-called multigeneration multiracials. As interracial unions and disparate types of multiracial people continue to increase in many societies, what effect does this have on our understanding of racial categories and boundaries? How do multiracial people think about race in relation to themselves and their children? Using in-depth interviews, this book investigates how and why multiracial people racially identify and raise their children in particular ways, as well as their attitudes toward the transmission of minority ancestries to their children. Delving into parents’ concerns about racism and the strategies they use to address it with their children, the book also explores their thoughts about their children’s futures in a society in which mixing and mixed-race people are increasingly part of the mainstream.
Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479884575
- eISBN:
- 9781479863570
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479884575.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Based upon a year’s ethnographic fieldwork with 27 members of an ordinary London class, this book offers an original, readable and engaging study of the lives of one class of 13 to 14-year-olds in a ...
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Based upon a year’s ethnographic fieldwork with 27 members of an ordinary London class, this book offers an original, readable and engaging study of the lives of one class of 13 to 14-year-olds in a contemporary London neighbourhood. Telling the story of their lives at home, in school, hanging out with friends and online, it shows how the lives of young people today are shaped by the pressures of individualization and how schools, families and the young people themselves attempt to negotiate the meaning of education in a digitally connected yet fiercely competitive world. The book examines young people’s concrete experiences of growing up in early twenty-first century Britain, asking: what matters to them, what vision of the future do they think their parents and teachers are preparing them for, and how are they facing the opportunities or challenges that lie ahead? While media, public and policy discourses express hopes and fears about the potential of digital media networks, the book shows how young people, along with their parents and teachers, are more invested in maintaining their separate spheres of interest. Thus they exercise their agency more to disconnect than to connect with others or across activities or places. The Class’s intersecting portraits of 27 children provide new insight into a host of academic, policy and practitioner/educator debates about what it means to grow up in contemporary society and what roles family, school, community and media now play in the lives of young people.Less
Based upon a year’s ethnographic fieldwork with 27 members of an ordinary London class, this book offers an original, readable and engaging study of the lives of one class of 13 to 14-year-olds in a contemporary London neighbourhood. Telling the story of their lives at home, in school, hanging out with friends and online, it shows how the lives of young people today are shaped by the pressures of individualization and how schools, families and the young people themselves attempt to negotiate the meaning of education in a digitally connected yet fiercely competitive world. The book examines young people’s concrete experiences of growing up in early twenty-first century Britain, asking: what matters to them, what vision of the future do they think their parents and teachers are preparing them for, and how are they facing the opportunities or challenges that lie ahead? While media, public and policy discourses express hopes and fears about the potential of digital media networks, the book shows how young people, along with their parents and teachers, are more invested in maintaining their separate spheres of interest. Thus they exercise their agency more to disconnect than to connect with others or across activities or places. The Class’s intersecting portraits of 27 children provide new insight into a host of academic, policy and practitioner/educator debates about what it means to grow up in contemporary society and what roles family, school, community and media now play in the lives of young people.
TIM FARRANT
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198151975
- eISBN:
- 9780191710247
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151975.003.0015
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter shows that older forms of Balzac's fiction re-emerge and are reinvented towards the end of his career. The early 1840s see a series of ‘supernovellas’, Un début dans la vie, La Muse du ...
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This chapter shows that older forms of Balzac's fiction re-emerge and are reinvented towards the end of his career. The early 1840s see a series of ‘supernovellas’, Un début dans la vie, La Muse du département, Modeste Mignon, developed from short stories, under the influence of his sister Laure and Madame Hanska, and with an implicit moral aim. It is this augmented nouvelle form to which Balzac turns in his final diptych, Les Parents pauvres, which combine the cogency of short fiction with the linearity, fragmentation, and eclecticism of the serialized novel.Less
This chapter shows that older forms of Balzac's fiction re-emerge and are reinvented towards the end of his career. The early 1840s see a series of ‘supernovellas’, Un début dans la vie, La Muse du département, Modeste Mignon, developed from short stories, under the influence of his sister Laure and Madame Hanska, and with an implicit moral aim. It is this augmented nouvelle form to which Balzac turns in his final diptych, Les Parents pauvres, which combine the cogency of short fiction with the linearity, fragmentation, and eclecticism of the serialized novel.
Emily M. Calhoun
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195399745
- eISBN:
- 9780199894444
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195399745.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
The indifference of justices, both to the harm they inflict on constitutional stature and to the opportunities they have to enhance their legitimacy by honoring stature, can run deep. This chapter ...
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The indifference of justices, both to the harm they inflict on constitutional stature and to the opportunities they have to enhance their legitimacy by honoring stature, can run deep. This chapter analyzes troubling features of Chief Justice Roberts's plurality opinion in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No.1 and the majority opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The Parents Involved plurality opinion repeats previously discussed failures to satisfy the harm-avoidance obligation which are evident in earlier decisions such as Bowers v. Hardwick. The plurality opinion also reveals an indifference to harm-amelioration obligations. The adamant refusal in Citizens United to acknowledge important differences between corporations and citizens is disquieting confirmation of previous arguments that some justices may not highly value the constitutional stature of citizens.Less
The indifference of justices, both to the harm they inflict on constitutional stature and to the opportunities they have to enhance their legitimacy by honoring stature, can run deep. This chapter analyzes troubling features of Chief Justice Roberts's plurality opinion in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No.1 and the majority opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The Parents Involved plurality opinion repeats previously discussed failures to satisfy the harm-avoidance obligation which are evident in earlier decisions such as Bowers v. Hardwick. The plurality opinion also reveals an indifference to harm-amelioration obligations. The adamant refusal in Citizens United to acknowledge important differences between corporations and citizens is disquieting confirmation of previous arguments that some justices may not highly value the constitutional stature of citizens.
David F. Musto and Pamela Korsmeyer
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300090369
- eISBN:
- 9780300137842
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300090369.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter looks at the Carter administration, which is noted to have ended with an irresolute drug policy. Jimmy Carter is shown to have had an open mind about marijuana; this soon changed as the ...
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This chapter looks at the Carter administration, which is noted to have ended with an irresolute drug policy. Jimmy Carter is shown to have had an open mind about marijuana; this soon changed as the political and social climate caused a withdrawal of support for marijuana decriminalization. It talks about the Parents' Movement, which took over the debate surrounding marijuana and drugs in general. This chapter ends with a note that Ronald Reagan would adopt policies similar to Richard Nixon's, which would eventually lead to a decline in public drug toleration.Less
This chapter looks at the Carter administration, which is noted to have ended with an irresolute drug policy. Jimmy Carter is shown to have had an open mind about marijuana; this soon changed as the political and social climate caused a withdrawal of support for marijuana decriminalization. It talks about the Parents' Movement, which took over the debate surrounding marijuana and drugs in general. This chapter ends with a note that Ronald Reagan would adopt policies similar to Richard Nixon's, which would eventually lead to a decline in public drug toleration.
JOY G. DRYFOOS
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195137859
- eISBN:
- 9780199846948
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195137859.003.0006
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter considers modern school restructuring and reform. It gives some examples of programs aimed at high-risk students and looks at growing experiences with school restructuring designs. An ...
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This chapter considers modern school restructuring and reform. It gives some examples of programs aimed at high-risk students and looks at growing experiences with school restructuring designs. An important outcome for effective schools is the promotion of healthy lifestyles and the prevention of high-risk behaviors. Children who are engaged in school activities are much less likely to get into trouble with drugs, sex, and violence. Some programs aimed at high-risk students include Valued Youth Partnership, Cities-in-Schools (CIS), The School Transition Environment Project (STEP), The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP), Liberty Partnerships, and Parents as Teachers (PAT).Less
This chapter considers modern school restructuring and reform. It gives some examples of programs aimed at high-risk students and looks at growing experiences with school restructuring designs. An important outcome for effective schools is the promotion of healthy lifestyles and the prevention of high-risk behaviors. Children who are engaged in school activities are much less likely to get into trouble with drugs, sex, and violence. Some programs aimed at high-risk students include Valued Youth Partnership, Cities-in-Schools (CIS), The School Transition Environment Project (STEP), The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP), Liberty Partnerships, and Parents as Teachers (PAT).
PAUL ROCK
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198267959
- eISBN:
- 9780191683428
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198267959.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters and presents some concluding thoughts. It describes the emergence of groups such as The Compassionate Friends, Parents of Murdered ...
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This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters and presents some concluding thoughts. It describes the emergence of groups such as The Compassionate Friends, Parents of Murdered Children, and Support After Murder and Manslaughter, and the dilemmas they faced.Less
This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters and presents some concluding thoughts. It describes the emergence of groups such as The Compassionate Friends, Parents of Murdered Children, and Support After Murder and Manslaughter, and the dilemmas they faced.
PAUL ROCK
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198267959
- eISBN:
- 9780191683428
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198267959.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter focuses on the emergence of self-help groups, defined as a group organized around a common problem or condition, its members joining to meet their own needs and taking responsibility for ...
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This chapter focuses on the emergence of self-help groups, defined as a group organized around a common problem or condition, its members joining to meet their own needs and taking responsibility for themselves and for the joint management of the group. It describes the founding of The Compassionate Friends (TCF), a support group for the parents of murdered children. Within the TCF the Parents of Murdered Children was established, which later severed itself from TCF to become completely autonomous in 1990.Less
This chapter focuses on the emergence of self-help groups, defined as a group organized around a common problem or condition, its members joining to meet their own needs and taking responsibility for themselves and for the joint management of the group. It describes the founding of The Compassionate Friends (TCF), a support group for the parents of murdered children. Within the TCF the Parents of Murdered Children was established, which later severed itself from TCF to become completely autonomous in 1990.
PAUL ROCK
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198267959
- eISBN:
- 9780191683428
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198267959.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter begins with a description of Victim Support, which became the prime voluntary organization serving victims in England and Wales by the late 1980s. Victim Support was the authoritative ...
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This chapter begins with a description of Victim Support, which became the prime voluntary organization serving victims in England and Wales by the late 1980s. Victim Support was the authoritative mouthpiece of the victim and an appreciable ‘Service Delivery’ organization, itself a new, albeit minor power in the criminal justice system, and it was taken by the mass media, politicians, and officials to be established, sound, informed, and reasonably non-partisan. Its reports are published with a very wide circulation and are supported by professional press campaigns. The chapter then discusses the dealings between Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) and Victim Support.Less
This chapter begins with a description of Victim Support, which became the prime voluntary organization serving victims in England and Wales by the late 1980s. Victim Support was the authoritative mouthpiece of the victim and an appreciable ‘Service Delivery’ organization, itself a new, albeit minor power in the criminal justice system, and it was taken by the mass media, politicians, and officials to be established, sound, informed, and reasonably non-partisan. Its reports are published with a very wide circulation and are supported by professional press campaigns. The chapter then discusses the dealings between Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) and Victim Support.
Marc Gopin
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199916986
- eISBN:
- 9780199980307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199916986.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This introductory chapter first sets out the book's main purpose, which is to confront an enemy system that has involved bloodshed of innocents and immense sorrow for over one hundred years—the peace ...
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This introductory chapter first sets out the book's main purpose, which is to confront an enemy system that has involved bloodshed of innocents and immense sorrow for over one hundred years—the peace partners across the lines of the Arab/Jewish conflict over the land of historic Palestine, known by Jews as Israel. It then focuses on the author's self-reflection, covering a definition of self-reflection and self-examination as an antidote to despair. It examines the practice of knowing oneself by introducing the story of a little-known peacemaker who had a very strong impact on the author of this book. Ibrahim is one of the members of the Bereaved Parents Circle, a group of over five hundred Palestinian and Jewish families, every one of them having lost an immediate family member to the conflict. The chapter analyzes the transcripts of his interview, quoting extensively.Less
This introductory chapter first sets out the book's main purpose, which is to confront an enemy system that has involved bloodshed of innocents and immense sorrow for over one hundred years—the peace partners across the lines of the Arab/Jewish conflict over the land of historic Palestine, known by Jews as Israel. It then focuses on the author's self-reflection, covering a definition of self-reflection and self-examination as an antidote to despair. It examines the practice of knowing oneself by introducing the story of a little-known peacemaker who had a very strong impact on the author of this book. Ibrahim is one of the members of the Bereaved Parents Circle, a group of over five hundred Palestinian and Jewish families, every one of them having lost an immediate family member to the conflict. The chapter analyzes the transcripts of his interview, quoting extensively.
Lucas A. Powe Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520297807
- eISBN:
- 9780520970014
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520297807.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter examines Supreme Court cases that were filed over the issue of immigration in Texas. Undocumented immigrants pay in-state tuition at Texas's public universities. The state led the charge ...
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This chapter examines Supreme Court cases that were filed over the issue of immigration in Texas. Undocumented immigrants pay in-state tuition at Texas's public universities. The state led the charge against allowing undocumented parents of American citizens to work legally. In 1975, Texas lawmakers passed legislation allowing school districts to deny admission and therefore education to any student who could neither prove lawful residence in the United States nor pay the requisite tuition. It was clear that the legislature wished to deter illegal immigration. The chapter discusses the legal challenge to this policy, focusing on the case Plyler v. Doe, and Texas's lawsuit against the Obama administration over Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), one of two memoranda issued by the president on immigration and deportation.Less
This chapter examines Supreme Court cases that were filed over the issue of immigration in Texas. Undocumented immigrants pay in-state tuition at Texas's public universities. The state led the charge against allowing undocumented parents of American citizens to work legally. In 1975, Texas lawmakers passed legislation allowing school districts to deny admission and therefore education to any student who could neither prove lawful residence in the United States nor pay the requisite tuition. It was clear that the legislature wished to deter illegal immigration. The chapter discusses the legal challenge to this policy, focusing on the case Plyler v. Doe, and Texas's lawsuit against the Obama administration over Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), one of two memoranda issued by the president on immigration and deportation.
John Henderson
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861345141
- eISBN:
- 9781447303220
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861345141.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Research and Statistics
The increasing recognition that events during pregnancy and early infancy have a profound impact on future health and disease through to later life has led to the development of longitudinal and ...
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The increasing recognition that events during pregnancy and early infancy have a profound impact on future health and disease through to later life has led to the development of longitudinal and epidemiological studies beginning in early life to study the antecedents of important public health outcomes. These studies are further enhanced by developments in human genetics which led to advances in the knowledge of genetic influences on human health and disease and technology. This chapter discusses the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). This research was designed to examine the interactions between genetic susceptibilities and environmental exposures on children's health and well-being, including disease, health, developmental, psychological, educational and social outcomes. What is described in this chapter is an example of a large, population-based, longitudinal birth cohort that was recruited for the purpose of non-therapeutic, epidemiological research. In this chapter, the nature of the study, the methods of data collection, and an example given of a physical measurement that was deemed necessary to characterise accurately a particular health outcome are analysed and described. The regulatory framework on which the study was based is also discussed as well as the practical considerations of carrying out the physical testing, parent and child interactions, understanding and satisfaction.Less
The increasing recognition that events during pregnancy and early infancy have a profound impact on future health and disease through to later life has led to the development of longitudinal and epidemiological studies beginning in early life to study the antecedents of important public health outcomes. These studies are further enhanced by developments in human genetics which led to advances in the knowledge of genetic influences on human health and disease and technology. This chapter discusses the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). This research was designed to examine the interactions between genetic susceptibilities and environmental exposures on children's health and well-being, including disease, health, developmental, psychological, educational and social outcomes. What is described in this chapter is an example of a large, population-based, longitudinal birth cohort that was recruited for the purpose of non-therapeutic, epidemiological research. In this chapter, the nature of the study, the methods of data collection, and an example given of a physical measurement that was deemed necessary to characterise accurately a particular health outcome are analysed and described. The regulatory framework on which the study was based is also discussed as well as the practical considerations of carrying out the physical testing, parent and child interactions, understanding and satisfaction.
Ann Oakley
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861342997
- eISBN:
- 9781447304203
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861342997.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
This chapter comes from Parents revolt, an angry volume printed on cheap war quality paper, co-authored with Titmuss's wife Kathleen. It hypothesises a connection between the growth of acquisitive ...
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This chapter comes from Parents revolt, an angry volume printed on cheap war quality paper, co-authored with Titmuss's wife Kathleen. It hypothesises a connection between the growth of acquisitive social values and the tendency of people to have fewer children. It argues that a nation's true wealth is not what it is called today ‘gross national product’; rather, a nation's wealth inheres in the vitality of its people, and in people from all social classes. It observes that the fear of population decline which fuelled Parents revolt was an aspect of a European-wide anxiety about the survival capacities of national populations. It further observes in part, that this was a worry about the eclipse of elites by the masses; in part, a eugenic fear of ‘race’ pollution. It discusses themes of altruism and of the narrow-minded computation of public services in terms of economic costs and benefits — both key concerns in later social policy writings.Less
This chapter comes from Parents revolt, an angry volume printed on cheap war quality paper, co-authored with Titmuss's wife Kathleen. It hypothesises a connection between the growth of acquisitive social values and the tendency of people to have fewer children. It argues that a nation's true wealth is not what it is called today ‘gross national product’; rather, a nation's wealth inheres in the vitality of its people, and in people from all social classes. It observes that the fear of population decline which fuelled Parents revolt was an aspect of a European-wide anxiety about the survival capacities of national populations. It further observes in part, that this was a worry about the eclipse of elites by the masses; in part, a eugenic fear of ‘race’ pollution. It discusses themes of altruism and of the narrow-minded computation of public services in terms of economic costs and benefits — both key concerns in later social policy writings.
Christy Kulz
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526116178
- eISBN:
- 9781526128430
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526116178.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines parental orientations to Dreamfields, as responses to the urban chaos discourse show how parents and students conceptualise their positions within this imagined Urbanderry ...
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This chapter examines parental orientations to Dreamfields, as responses to the urban chaos discourse show how parents and students conceptualise their positions within this imagined Urbanderry landscape. Discourses of pathology shape the relationships developed between parents and teachers, impacting upon how students and parents are perceived and treated by the school. The urban chaos discourse powerfully reiterates the inequitable positions of the watcher and the watched, the judger and the judged. The white middle-class parent occupies an invisible, normative space, while working-class and ethnic minority parents feel the potential weight of discipline's reformative hand. Rather than students being measured as data, the continued use of types, categories and subjective judgements becomes evident as students are weeded off Dreamfields’ conveyor belt as it progresses from the compulsory lower school to sixth form college.Less
This chapter examines parental orientations to Dreamfields, as responses to the urban chaos discourse show how parents and students conceptualise their positions within this imagined Urbanderry landscape. Discourses of pathology shape the relationships developed between parents and teachers, impacting upon how students and parents are perceived and treated by the school. The urban chaos discourse powerfully reiterates the inequitable positions of the watcher and the watched, the judger and the judged. The white middle-class parent occupies an invisible, normative space, while working-class and ethnic minority parents feel the potential weight of discipline's reformative hand. Rather than students being measured as data, the continued use of types, categories and subjective judgements becomes evident as students are weeded off Dreamfields’ conveyor belt as it progresses from the compulsory lower school to sixth form college.
Marianne Holm Pedersen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780719089589
- eISBN:
- 9781781706930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719089589.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Global
Taking its starting point in the taklif ritual that is celebrated when a nine-year old girl begins to observe Islam, this chapter investigates how Iraqi women seek to transmit to the next generation ...
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Taking its starting point in the taklif ritual that is celebrated when a nine-year old girl begins to observe Islam, this chapter investigates how Iraqi women seek to transmit to the next generation particular norms, values, and traditions associated with the place of origin. From a parental perspective, the celebration of taklif represents both efforts to create relatedness between parents and children and attempts to include children in different kinds of community. All in all, the event forms part of a greater effort to make children into moral human beings. However, in the view of the majority society, women’s veiling is generally considered as one of the most visible signs of a chosen ‘otherness’ . Young women’s taklif may therefore also potentially expose them to various forms of exclusion in Danish society. The chapter highlights the sometimes contradictory processes of inclusion and exclusion associated with transmitting religious practice across generations.Less
Taking its starting point in the taklif ritual that is celebrated when a nine-year old girl begins to observe Islam, this chapter investigates how Iraqi women seek to transmit to the next generation particular norms, values, and traditions associated with the place of origin. From a parental perspective, the celebration of taklif represents both efforts to create relatedness between parents and children and attempts to include children in different kinds of community. All in all, the event forms part of a greater effort to make children into moral human beings. However, in the view of the majority society, women’s veiling is generally considered as one of the most visible signs of a chosen ‘otherness’ . Young women’s taklif may therefore also potentially expose them to various forms of exclusion in Danish society. The chapter highlights the sometimes contradictory processes of inclusion and exclusion associated with transmitting religious practice across generations.
David Tobis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780195099881
- eISBN:
- 9780199344772
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195099881.003.0006
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
Chapter 6 surveys the activities of parents and their allies across the United States. It describes a new bill of rights for parents embroiled in the child welfare system, and focuses on three areas: ...
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Chapter 6 surveys the activities of parents and their allies across the United States. It describes a new bill of rights for parents embroiled in the child welfare system, and focuses on three areas: parent organizing to reform child welfare policy, legal representation for parents in family court, and the work of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Casey Family Programs in promoting parents as mentors for mothers and fathers struggling to be reunited with their children in U.S. cities.Less
Chapter 6 surveys the activities of parents and their allies across the United States. It describes a new bill of rights for parents embroiled in the child welfare system, and focuses on three areas: parent organizing to reform child welfare policy, legal representation for parents in family court, and the work of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Casey Family Programs in promoting parents as mentors for mothers and fathers struggling to be reunited with their children in U.S. cities.
Erica Frankenberg and Elizabeth Debray
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835128
- eISBN:
- 9781469602585
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869208_frankenberg.4
- Subject:
- Education, History of Education
This book explores the meaning of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (PICS, 2007) and what is possible in its aftermath and in ...
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This book explores the meaning of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (PICS, 2007) and what is possible in its aftermath and in current policy. It presents what new evidence exists about integrated education and its relationship to equality in educational opportunity; what the political prospects are; what we know about new policy alternatives, including using socioeconomic status; and what the federal role could be in encouraging such options.Less
This book explores the meaning of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (PICS, 2007) and what is possible in its aftermath and in current policy. It presents what new evidence exists about integrated education and its relationship to equality in educational opportunity; what the political prospects are; what we know about new policy alternatives, including using socioeconomic status; and what the federal role could be in encouraging such options.
