Quotes/ References Flashcards
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“Everyone, including children are entitled to these rights because they are human”
Lecture: Giving Children a Voice
Reference: crae.org.uk
HM Government, 2015
Defining Child Abuse: General
“Child Abuse consists of anything which individuals, institutions, or processes do or fail to do which directly or indirectly harms children or damages their prospects of safe and healthy development into adulthood”
HM Government, 2015
Defining Child Abuse: Legal
Children Act 1989 refers, in various sections, to the concept that a child:
.. is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm..
[e.g. s.47(1), s.31(2)]
HM Government, 2015
Defining Child Abuse: Operational
“A form of maltreatment of a child. Somebody may abuse or neglect a child by inflicting harm, or by failing to act to prevent harm. Children may be abused in a family or in an institutional or community setting by those known to them or, more rarely, by others (e.g. via the internet). They may be abused by an adult or adults, or another child or children.”
Doyal & Gough
Giving Children a Voice
To be deprived of needs results in harm rather than human flourishment
11 intermediate needs satifiers… including security in childhood
“Law is one of the most symbolic signs of legitimacy”
Ball & Friedman
What did Eglantyne Jebb draft? (Save the Children)
Deceleration of the rights of the child 1923
A series of related children’s rights proclamations
Who endorsed the World Child Welfare Charter?
The League of Nations General Assembly, 1924
“There have always been people who have listened, sometimes been people who have heard, and perhaps less often, those who have acted wisely on what children have had to say”
Lecture: Giving Children a Voice
Reference: Roberts, 2008
Scholars who believe children learn differently to adults?
Psychological Perspective
Piaget, Bandura, Vygotsky
Brofenbrenner (1979)
Bio-ecological model of childhood; the child is influced by the surronding systems- Microsystem Meosystem Exosystem Macrosystem Chrononsystem
Super & Harkness (1997)
2 main principles:
The child’s environment is organised in a non-arbitrary manner as part of cultural system
The child has an inborn disposition which interacts with the environment –> Caretaker psychology, customs & settings
Love and security
New Experiences
Praise and recognition
Responsibility
Kelmer Pringle (1974) Basic needs of Western children
Hart’s ladder of participation
Made up of 8 rungs of participation - rung 8 (child-imitated) being the highest level of participation
first 3 rungs= Non- Participation (adultism)
Argued which level of participation is the most beneficial
“The last few decades have witnessed a loosening of the connection between fatherhood and masculinity”
Gillis
Perspectives of Fatherhood
“Knows far better as a rule what is good for his child than a court of justice can”
Collier & Sheldon
Importance of fatherhood- they do know whats best for their child even though court doesn’t always prioritise the father
Psychoanalysis- Sigmund Freud
Boys adopt masculine traits from their father’s because of an unconscious desire for their mother (oedipal complex). Carrying on gender stereotypes throughout history- patriarchal and heterosexual
Developmental Psychology- John Bowlby
Attachment theory focuses on mother being the primary caregiver
However, more recent research suggests the father is equally as important (LAMB) and is essential for holistic well being of the child (FARRELL)
Sociology - Talcott Parsons
Sex role theory- men are viewed as being a role model and an economic provider
They tend to live up to the roles expected of them in fear of being rejected by society
Foucault (1979) Children & Power
Use of power against the smaller, weaker, less powerful members of society
Used to obtain docility, obedience and complienece
To maintain status quo and suppression of minority groups
Chris Grayling, MP
“It is to used occasionally… sometimes it sends a message”
Smacking makes children sad and avoidant of adults- they had not learnt that their behaviour was unacceptable
Willow & Hyder
Crowley & Vulliamy
DCSF (2007) report- found children became emotionally distant to their parents because they feared them ‘losing their temper’
Corporal punishment “constitutes a form if violence against children that wounds their dignity and hence their human rights”
The Inter- American Commission on Human Rights (2009)
Domestic Violence Definition [Home Office, 2013]
“Any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality”
