Parental rights and responsibilities
Analysing social policy and lived experiences

Author/Editor(s):

Harriet Churchill

Format:

Hardback, 264 pages, 240 x 172 mm

ISBN

9781847420916

Published:

30 Mar 2011

Add this title to your basket

Own this title? Review it!

‹ Previous title   Next title ›   

North America customers can order this book here from the University of Chicago Press.

"A comprehensive and timely critical review"
Journal of Social Policy

"Harriet Churchill powerfully juxtaposes British policies around parenting with the experiences and perspectives of parents. This encounter is both a painful and productive one, enabling her to suggest ways in which parental rights and responsibilities might be re-thought."
John Clarke, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University

"Harriet Churchill's new book is a comprehensive, well written and extremely useful review of recent family policy and research. Recommended reading."
Val Gillies, Families & Social Capital Research Group, London South Bank University

About This Book

This timely book examines parental rights to 'welfare state support' and parental responsibilities for child welfare in relation to recent social policy agendas pursued by the Labour government in the UK in the context of child well-being research, state welfare analysis and sociological research about parental perspectives and the multiple contexts of parenting and childhood. It calls for notions of parental rights and responsibilities which are more responsive to the diversity of parental perspectives and parenting contexts. The book is valuable reading for students, researchers and practitioners in social policy and child and family services.

Author Biography

Harriet Churchill is a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include family and childhood sociology, family and parental support, welfare state reform and family policy.

Contents

Introduction
Part one: The broader context: Conceptualising child, family and social well-being
Socio-economic change and social well-being trends
Children, families and welfare state restructuring
Part two: UK social policy developments 1997-2010; 
Welfare to work measures and financial support for families
Childcare and family-friendly employment policies
Parental and family support services
Part three: Research on parental perspectives: Parenthood and parenting in context
Negotiating work and family life
Part four: Policy implications: Conclusion: rights and responsibilities for child, family and social well-being.

Customers in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei must order from their local distributor