What is it about?
This article critically discusses the kind of injustices that children who are exposed to social problems may face as a result of a dominant developmentalist, classicist and essentialist ideas and the assumption that children's morality and knowledge is a replication of their parents and upbringing. The empirical focus is the framework for assessment of children and their needs in Swedish child welfare, which has been inspired by the English and Welsh child protection system.
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Why is it important?
Theoretically, this article merges feminist theory, postcolonial perspectives and critical childhood studies. The article may be seen as a response to recent developments in child welfare and the increased focus on the participation of children.
Perspectives
While children often are discussed as a group and a monolithic universal category, this article provides with examples on the differentiation of children due to ethnicity, race, class, age and gender. The article makes the point that practice and theory are interlinked also in the practice-oriented field of social work and child welfare. For this reason, more attention and critical analysis needs to be given to the theoretical legacy of the field.
Zlatana Knezevic
Malardalens Hogskola
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This page is a summary of: Amoral, im/moral and dis/loyal: Children’s moral status in child welfare, Childhood, June 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0907568217711742.
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