Children & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Children & Society is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the mental health and well‐being of children and young people111
Youth participation: Adultism, human rights and professional youth work27
Co‐creating youth justice practice with young people: Tackling power dynamics and enabling transformative action27
Research with young children: Exploring the methodological advantages and challenges of using hand puppets and draw and tell26
Fostering global dialogue: Conceptualisations of children's rights to participation and protection23
Using a ‘Family Language Policy’ lens to explore the dynamic and relational nature of child agency21
Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown17
Child language brokering as a family care practice: Reframing the ‘parentified child’ debate16
The impact ofCOVID‐19 lockdown on children's and adolescents' mental health in Greece15
Constructs of childhood, generation and heroism in editorials on young people's climate change activism: Their mobilisation and effects13
Disruptions, adjustments and hopes: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on child well‐being in five Majority World Countries13
Intensified inequities: Young people's experiences of Covid‐19 and school closures in Uganda12
Child as method and/as childism: Conceptual–political intersections and tensions12
Children at risk of being recruited for armed conflict, 1990–202012
Childhood innocence and experience: Memory, discourse and practice12
Depathologising diversity: Trans children and families' experiences of pathologisation in the UK11
The ethnic identity of transracially placed foster children with an ethnic minority background: A systematic literature review11
Participation as a right to the city: Iranian children’s perspectives about their inclusion in urban decision‐making11
Gamification and family leisure to alleviate the psychological impact of confinement due to COVID‐1910
Hiding and seeking: Children's lived experiences during COVID‐1910
School bullying and health‐related quality of life in Chinese school‐aged children and adolescents9
Does gender influence children's and young people's caring? A qualitative, systematic review and meta‐ethnography9
Why are you allowed to go to school on your own? Exploring children's voices on independent mobility9
Parental mediation in the age of mobile technology8
The Haitian orphanage crisis: Exporting neoliberal family ideals in the debate on vulnerable childhoods in Haiti8
How parenting pre‐teens compares to other child stages: Identifying opportunities to enhance adolescent mental health and wellbeing8
Crafting futures with hope: Young climate activists’ imaginaries in an age of crisis and uncertainty8
‘Keeping the informal safe’: Strategies for developing peer support initiatives for young people who have experienced sexual violence8
Towards more active parenting: Trends in parental mediation of children’s internet use in European countries8
Supporting languages: The socio‐educational integration of migrant and refugee children and young people8
Agency in everyday life: An ethnography of the moral experiences of children and youth8
‘Them’ in an abnormal world: Media construction and responsibility attribution of left‐behind children in rural China7
The association between joint physical custody and children’s mental health. Do children’s experiences of parental loyalty conflicts moderate the relationship?7
Material as actor in the enactment of social norms: Engaging with a sociomaterial perspective in childhood studies to avoid the ‘traps of closure’7
‘..It takes a lot of brain space’: Understanding young carers’ lives in England and the implications for policy and practice to reduce inappropriate and excessive care work7
Innovations in care for children separated from parents: Transitioning from residential to family models of service7
Kindergarten Education Scheme in Hong Kong: Policy measures, rhizomatic connections and early childhood teacher education7
Healthy masculinity construction: The influence of race, faith and athletics7
'It's the way they look at you': Why discrimination towards young parents is a policy and practice issue7
We need to understand what’s going on because it’s our life’: Using sandboxing to understand children and young people’s everyday conversations about care7
Turning 18 in specialised residential therapeutic care: Independence or a cliff edge?6
The role of foster carers in England and Portugal: Is it solely a parenting role?6
Re‐imaging everyday routines and educational aspirations under COVID‐19 lockdown: Narratives of urban middle‐class children in Punjab, India6
Adult narratives of childhood language brokering: Learning what it means to be bilingual6
Children's lives in an era of school closures: Exploring the implications of COVID‐19 for child labour in Ghana6
Children's experiences of a good environment and its future—Developing theoretical framework for children's wellbeing6
Young children’s agency with digital technologies6
Post‐socialist geopolitical uncertainties: Researching memories of childhood with ‘child as method’6
Appraisals and de/legitimation of classroom well‐being: A study based on Chilean students' voices6
How many men work in the English early years sector? Why is the low figure so ‘stubbornly resistant to change’?6
‘We can play tag with a stick’. Children's knowledge, experiences, feelings and creative thinking during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Children's participation in international fora: The experiences and perspectives of children and adults6
‘Self’ (ziji), ‘others’ (taren) and ‘collective’ (jiti): Friendships at school embedded with China's Confucian–collectivist sociocultural values6
The state and my happiness: Youth mental health, citizenship education and discursive contestations in contemporary Indonesia6
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability6
‘I actually know that things will get better’: The many pathways to resilience of LGBTQIA+ youth in out‐of‐home care6
Unpacking the discourses of stunting in Indonesian early childhood education and parenting5
Telepresence robotic technology support for social connectedness during treatment of children with cancer5
Questioning children's activism: What is new or old in theory and practice?5
Breaking the silence on special needs children in foster care: The diversity of children in foster care, carers and processes5
Victims first? Examining the place of ‘child criminal exploitation’ within ‘child first’ youth justice5
Thinking and doing with childism in children's literature studies5
School bullying and the ongoing social dynamics: A thematic analysis of young peoples' perspectives on a specific bullying case5
‘I wish that COVID would disappear, and we'd all be together’: Maintaining Children's friendships during the Covid‐19 pandemic5
Finding methods for the inclusion of all children: Advancing participatory research with children with disabilities5
‘The Pandemic Affected My Life in a Negative Way’: The Experiences of Estonian Children in Child Protective Services During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic5
Children's social representations of utopian societies4
Negotiating power dynamics through co‐reflexivity in research with young children in disadvantaged communities4
Listening to the opinista? Relational understandings of voice and silence in a multiperspective narrative study of child psychotherapy4
‘Vulnerable and abandoned’—The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on education, health and social care provision for children with SEND: Children and parents' perspectives4
Mixed methods Participatory Action Research to inform service design based on the Capabilities Approach, in the North of England4
Adultification, neglect and sexual abuse at home: Selected narratives of orphaned girls in KwaMashu, South Africa4
Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research4
Education of Afghan refugee children in Iran: A structured review of policies4
Society's readiness: How relational approaches to well‐being could support young children's educational achievement in high‐poverty contexts4
Towards inclusive urban environments for infants and toddlers: Assessing four urban neighbourhoods in Istanbul with mothers4
Predictors of out‐group empathy among majority and minority children in a conflict‐affected society4
Embedded in relations—Interactions as a source of agency and life opportunities for care‐experienced young adults4
Latent classes and longitudinal patterns of material hardship as predictors of child well‐being4
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts4
Childist theory in the humanities and social sciences4
Growing sideways: Re‐articulating ontologies of childhood within/through relationships and sexuality education (RSE)4
Bear in a Window: Australian children's perspectives on lockdown and experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic4
The performativity of surveys: Teenagers’ meaning‐making of the 'Health Behavior in School‐aged Children Survey' in Sweden4
Children’s consent to child welfare services: Some explorative remarks4
A children’s election—Dilemmas of children’s political participation4
Transracial adoption practice in South Africa: The Western Cape as a case study4
Free school meals for all poor children in Europe: An important and affordable target?4
The ‘walking with friends to school’ project and its contribution to independent mobility, self‐esteem and happiness3
‘Once you bond … you want to create social change’: Interpersonal relationships in youth activism3
Ethnic identity in school context: The case of Yi ethnic minority adolescents in rural China3
The gift of language: An anthropological approach to child language brokering in Barcelona3
Reconceptualising coproduction as activism together3
Food and nutrition education in Australian primary schools: Parents' perspectives on why, when and how3
Conducting large‐scale mixed‐method research on harm and abuse prevention with children under 12: Learning from a UK feasibility study3
Listening to children: Evaluation of a positive parenting programme through art‐based research3
Children and Society Policy Review—A review of government consultation processes when engaging with children and young people about the statutory guidance for Relationships and Sex Education in school3
‘Can you hear me?’ An exploratory study investigating the representation and impact of children’s views in multi‐agency meetings3
Operationalising children's participation: Competing understandings of the policy to practice ‘gap’3
Children's lives and rights under lockdown: A Northern Irish perspective by autistic young people3
Girls, sexuality and playground‐assemblages in a South African primary school3
Association of parenting behaviours and online risk‐taking in adolescents with ADHD3
Locking down adolescents: Victims, irresponsible subjects, or just social actors3
Ending racial disproportionality in child welfare: A systematic review3
How can a researcher minimise causing harm when conducting interviews with particularly vulnerable children in longitudinal research?3
“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan3
Alcohol and tobacco use in Portuguese adolescents: The relationship with social factors, future expectations, physical and psychological symptoms3
Vulnerable children aiding visually challenged beggars in Nigeria: Need for social work intervention3
Doing foster family with young refugees: Negotiations of belonging and being at home3
Narratives of child sexual abuse—Conceptualizing relational complexities3
Does greater household wealth make young children perform better? The case of Vietnam3
The relationship between maternal sensitivity and play during early childhood with the development of cognitive skills and socio‐emotional competencies: Longitudinal evidence from Peru3
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey3
Children's perspectives on their play experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A video‐based interview study3
The lived realities of left‐behind children in Mainland China: Life and values education in the home and at school3
Valuing the whole community: Children, schools and language3
Snack time in kindergarten as a cultural practice—Implications for processes of subjectivation3
Criminal responsibility of older children: The failings of doli incapax in Australia3
I agreed to go because........examining the Agency of Children within a phenomenon conceptualised as trafficking in Ghana3
Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights3
How to do things with food: The rules and roles of mealtime ‘things’ in everyday family dinners3
The unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation3
Free time, gender and the pandemic: An exploration of children's daily routines in the times of COVID‐19 in Chile3
Children, language and access to schools in the global South: The case of migrants in Ghana3
Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency3
Visiting borders in education: A creative approach with children in primary education2
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Exploring children's experiences of schooling in Tanzania: How the ‘hidden curriculum’ undermines aspirations for sustainable development2
“Time to be free”: Playful agency in LOVE's in‐school programme for at‐risk youth2
The Tree(s) of Hope and Ambition: An arts‐based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID‐192
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance: Remote delivery of interventions during Covid‐192
“People as normal as possible”. Analysis of the construction of subjects in materials for the prevention of gender violence among teenagers in Spain2
Health experience outcomes of a health promotion project for middle school pupils in Sweden2
Children's services and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Italy: A study with educators and parents2
Carer involvement with children and child‐friendly book ownership in Bangladesh2
Art‐based research to explore children's lived experiences of dysgraphia2
‘Am I that bad?’: Middle‐class moralism and weight stigma towards parents of children with higher weight2
Children's Covid‐19 writing and drawings and the existential imperative to educate for uncertainty2
Enlightening through children—playing and thinking together in new ways2
Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages2
Envisioning action‐oriented and justice‐driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists2
Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study2
When pain never goes away: Understanding the lived experiences of children with chronic pain and their parents in Portugal2
Diversifying youth temporal orientations during educational transitions in China2
The inability of Turkey and Istanbul in institutionalisation of children's participation in urban planning: A policy analysis study2
Where are we in the recognition of young adult carers in France?2
Proposing a model for promoting Children's Health in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings2
Participatory budgeting for young people as democratic socialisation: An approach to the case of Spain2
The association between family routines and parents' different working hour schedules2
Area‐deprivation, social care spending and the rates of children in care proceedings in local authorities in England2
Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China2
Life‐history research with children: Extending and enriching the approach2
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit2
‘Childhood in the shadow of prison bars’: How school counselors cope while counseling children of incarcerated parents2
‘My friends are like my family’: The positive impact of high‐quality friendships on former foster care youth2
Emotions and involvement of foster carers preparing to welcome children arriving from war zones2
When child marriage and child welfare intersect: Understanding the barriers to education2
Ethics committees and shaping of children's participation in qualitative educational research in Chile2
Homeless youth‐led activism and direct action: Lessons from a participatory research project in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal2
A comprehensive policy review of evidence‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations2
Play and learn: Children's agency through the COVID‐19 pandemic in Mozambique2
Positive family relationships in a digital age: Hearing the voice of young people2
Children changing spaces, changing schools2
Child well‐being in early childhood education and care during COVID‐19: Child sensitivity in small, fixed groups2
Adventurous play in schools: The parent perspective2
Enabling Children's participation: Putting the ‘good dialogues’ model into practice2
‘I will grab a rifle and I will kill that bug!’: The role of children's humour in navigating painful treatments in a paediatric hospital in Argentina2
Political representatives' experiences of child participation in decision‐making processes: A qualitative interview study2
Emotions in the mediated civic context of the family: Understanding children's and parents' mutually constitutive mediation environment2
COVID taught me…’: Examining child‐radio productions in the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges: A focus group study2
Children and families with no recourse to public funds: Learning from case reviews2
Review of the international play policies and their contribution to supporting a child's right to play1
Picture books for young children of incarcerated parents: Through the lens of bibliotherapy1
“The home isn't like a safe space for them”—Ideals of home and family relationships in children's talk about family adversity and help‐seeking1
A figurational approach to understanding school climate and peer harassment: Possibilities from Norbert Elias’s work1
‘I like to dance with the flowers!’: Exploring the possibilities for biodiverse futures in an urban forest school1
Acceptance, obedience and resistance: Children's perceptions of street trading in Nigeria1
Between surveillance and self‐surveillance: What institutionalised girls in Ciudad Juárez (reveal that they) know about sexuality1
Minority language education: Reconciling the tensions of language revitalisation and the benefits of bilingualism1
Sexuality education for disabled children and youth in Ontario, Canada: Addressing epistemic injustice through school‐based sexuality education1
Process of co‐production of mental health service plans for refugee children in Turkey1
Learning in and beyond the classroom: Communities of practice in education support for separated children1
Socially active volunteering students: The case of student councils1
A qualitative study exploring the perceptions of health among pre‐teen girls from disadvantaged communities in Dublin1
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual1
Engaging studies of children in the Bible: What is going on and why you should care1
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Empowerment evaluation: Key methodology aspects from participatory research and intervention with Roma girls1
A gender‐based violence prevention programme—Young people's participation and activism in Scotland1
Trapped bodies, moving minds: Uncertainty and migration among marginalised urban youth in Ethiopia1
Exploring sibling influences on school‐aged child injuries1
Cultural metaphors as means to contextualised understanding of child and childhood1
A content analysis of South Korean newspaper coverage of adolescent cyberbullying1
Facilitation of adolescents' agency and hybrid integration1
Dragged kicking and screaming: Agency and violence for children entering secure accommodation1
From being ignored to engaging in dialogue: Young boys' narratives of children's participation in child–parent conflicts1
The importance of emotions in the lives of children and young people in foster care in England, France and Germany1
Shrinking social spaces: The role of nurseries as social infrastructure and brokers of support in times of crisis1
School integration of immigrant children in Belgium1
For me, speaking about the past is the best in the world, for them, the worst”: Social landscapes and territories of memory from displaced Colombian children1
Who do you think you are? Children's definitions of being a ‘child’1
Learning from Central American migrant children in‐transit within Mexico: A funds of knowledge approach1
What are parents' and children's co‐constructed views on mobile phone use and policies in school?1
Rethinking child and youth activism in challenging times1
Perspectives of socioeconomically disadvantaged parents on their children's coping during COVID‐19: Implications for practice1
Exploring the moral experiences of Anishinaabeg children in Rapid Lake, Quebec1
Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives1
Re‐thinking youth work as initial mental health support for young people1
Engaging diversities in a changing world: a statement from the new editors of Children & Society1
Embodying children’s rights in Italy and Spain: Unmasking some elements of the cultural politics of childhood1
The benefits of life stories to trauma research: Child disaster studies through ecological‐developmental lenses1
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool1
I am not going to lie; some people do not even want to talk: Co‐design with vulnerable groups affected by child criminal exploitation1
The effects of a resilience programme on social skills, bullying, and victimisation among eight to thirteen‐year‐old students1
Designing and validation of a workplace abuse questionnaire among child labour1
Relationship‐based practice and contextual safeguarding: Approaches to working with young people experiencing extra‐familial risk and harm1
Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying1
‘It hurts to give up on a child who has already been given up’: School counsellors' perspectives on their support for children in foster care1
A child‐centred asylum policy: Building on evidence and unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children's views1
Preschool children's dispositions of collaboration: A Chinese study1
Cultivating child and youth decision‐making: The principles and practices of the ReSPECT approach to professional development1
Elementary school children in the online world: Naming and mobilization of rights1
I don't know what is autism, what is normal teenage behaviour, and what is naughtiness’: Conceptualising child and adolescent to parent violence in the context of neurodevelopmental difference1
Using cinema voice to promote positive intimate relationships among European youth: The Lights4Violence Project1
The pen, the receiver and the pump: Exploring young children's experiences of having a parent with type 1 diabetes1
Atrans‐Europeanperspective on how artists can support teachers, parents and carers to engage with young people in the creative arts1
Education and the social mobility conundrum: An examination of the ‘psychosocial and academic trust alienation theory’ in the context of disadvantaged students in the UK secondary education1
The post‐war generation remembers: A mixed‐method study exploring children’s attitudes towards World War II commemoration1
Evaluation of route choice for walking commutes to school and street space optimization in old urban areas of China based on a child‐friendly orientation: The case of the Wuyi Park area in Zhengzhou1
Indicators of contact visit quality in non‐kinship foster care: An observational checklist1
Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness1
Children's humour and the grotesque pleasures in school mealtime socialisation1
Autism and education—The role of Europeanisation in South‐Eastern Europe: Policy mapping in Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia1
A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil1
Children's outdoor activities in the inner suburbs of Brisbane, Australia1
‘Stranger danger’, ‘abduction risks’ and ‘fear’: Media coverage of children's independent mobility and parental attitudes1
Police violence and abuse against street‐connected adolescents in Bangladesh: A qualitative study of lived experiences1
A music‐themed early critical media literacy practice with young bilingual learners: A multiple case study1
Growing up with disabled parents who use personal assistance (PA support): children's views and experiences1
Maintaining family stability in the age of digital technologies: An analysis of d/Discourse informing domestic screen media practices in three US families1
Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action1
‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes1
Character strengths as a link between family psychosocial environment and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents1
Toxic stress in children and youth: Exploring the role of community‐based programming to support health and well‐being in the United States1
Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors1
Picturing safety and danger: Children's perspectives in rural Sierra Leone1
Exposure to parental incarceration and subsequent illicit drug use: A review of the literature1
The space before, the space beyond: Activism, relationships and social change in the neo‐liberal academy1
Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence0
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