Philosophy and Child Poverty

Chapter 1 Philosophy and the Poverty of Children and their Families

Chapter 2 Child Poverty, Impoverished Parenting, and Normative Childhood: Some Words of Caution

Chapter 3 Children in Measurements of Poverty Within Populations: Two Problems with Current Indexes

Chapter 4 Poverty, Social Expectations, and the Family

Chapter 5 Beyond the Material Wounds of Child Poverty: The Conceptualization of Child Poverty as Moral Damage

Chapter 6 Making Them Strong? Vulnerability and Resilience in Poor Children

Chapter 7 Humiliation and Child Poverty

Chapter 8 Education, Voice and Empowerment: Learning with and from Children in Poverty

Chapter 9 The Nature of Nurture: Poverty, Father Absence and Gender Equality

Chapter 10 ‘I’ve Been Trying to Change My Life Heaps But I Always End Up Back Here’. The Complex Relationship Between Poverty, Parental Substance Dependency, and Self-Control

Chapter 11 Disability and Child Poverty

Chapter 12 Precarious Childhood

Chapter 13 Children in Liminality: Case Studies from Ireland and Iran

Chapter 14 A Duty-Based Approach to Children’s Right to Freedom from Extreme Poverty

Chapter 15 Towards an Ontological Approach to Care and Child Poverty

Chapter 16 Civic Tenderness as a Response to Child Poverty in America

Chapter 17 Parenting the Parents: The Ethics of Parent-Targeted Paternalism in the Context of Anti-poverty Policies