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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Mothering, education and culture: Russian, Palestinian and Jewish middle‐class mothers in Israeli Society By DeborahGoldenLaurenErdreichSvetaRobermanLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐5333
Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors22
Records of personal assistance applications reveal young carers: Viewed from the rights of the child22
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 education20
Crafting futures with hope: Young climate activists’ imaginaries in an age of crisis and uncertainty18
Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence17
Weaving Smartphones Into Mother–Infant Interaction: Digital Disruptions or Participatory Possibilities?17
‘Each child must be assigned a key person’: Context and interpretation of a statutory requirement in English Early Childhood Education and Care settings15
Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness14
Free school meals for all poor children in Europe: An important and affordable target?14
Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse14
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual14
Professional love and diversity in foster care12
The legal, policy, institutional and programmatic context for protecting children against online sexual exploitation in Tunisia12
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability11
Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–202011
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Towards more active parenting: Trends in parental mediation of children’s internet use in European countries10
‘Why blame the girls’?: Contextual factors enabling juvenile prostitution in a Ghanaian metropolis10
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts10
Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto9
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance: Remote delivery of interventions during Covid‐199
‘The Pandemic Affected My Life in a Negative Way’: The Experiences of Estonian Children in Child Protective Services During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic9
“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan9
Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia9
Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights9
The impact ofCOVID‐19 lockdown on children's and adolescents' mental health in Greece9
“I always think about tomorrow what I'll eat” an exploration of the experiences of adolescents in poor urban contexts in Accra, Ghana8
Criminal responsibility of older children: The failings of doli incapax in Australia8
Seeing disability in children's made for television programmes: An Australian case study8
Disruptions, adjustments and hopes: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on child well‐being in five Majority World Countries8
The non‐protesting children in the 2018 Parkland school shooting protests and their freedom not to express views in child participation spaces8
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The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life8
What can I do for my community? Contributing to the promotion of civic engagement through participatory methodologies: The case of young people from border regions of mainland Portugal8
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Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying7
Supporting living together: Group work on animal rights for children7
Coming of age in a pandemic era: The interdependence of life spheres through the lens of social integration of care leavers in Quebec during the COVID‐19 pandemic7
Questioning children's activism: What is new or old in theory and practice?7
The gift of language: An anthropological approach to child language brokering in Barcelona7
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Ending racial disproportionality in child welfare: A systematic review7
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool7
Toxic stress in children and youth: Exploring the role of community‐based programming to support health and well‐being in the United States7
The transformative potential of LGBTQ+ Children's picture books By JenniferMiller. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, ISBN 9781496840004. 270 pp., US$25 (pb)7
Trapped bodies, moving minds: Uncertainty and migration among marginalised urban youth in Ethiopia6
Poverty for lunch: A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE6
The lived realities of left‐behind children in Mainland China: Life and values education in the home and at school6
Agency in everyday life: An ethnography of the moral experiences of children and youth6
Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action6
Feminist reflections on childhood: A history and call to action By Penny A.Weiss. Temple University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781439918685, 293 pp.6
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A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit6
Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges: A focus group study6
Re‐thinking youth work as initial mental health support for young people6
Bullying in Spanish high schools: Intersection of gender and immigrant background6
The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the UK6
Towards inclusive urban environments for infants and toddlers: Assessing four urban neighbourhoods in Istanbul with mothers6
The assessment of cliques in bound child and adolescent groups: A systematic scoping review6
The girl in the text By AnnSmith (ed), New York: Berghahn Books, 2019, 9781789203233; 250 pp; (hb)5
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Gendering innocence: An empirical inquiry into the lived experience of gender incongruence in childhood5
Children's Digital Rights to Accessible and Reliable Public Sector Communication5
Co‐Designing a Children's Transition Charter for the Transition to School: Opening Participatory Spaces to Hear Children's Voices5
Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency5
An Inclusive Approach to Gardening in Children's Settings: An Observational Study5
Disputing discipline: Child protection, punishment and piety in Zanzibar schools. By FranziskaFay, Rutgers University Press, 2021. US$ 38.95, US$ 150 (cloth). ISBN 9781978821736 (paperback); 9781978825
“People as normal as possible”. Analysis of the construction of subjects in materials for the prevention of gender violence among teenagers in Spain5
Artificial intelligence for children: UNICEF's policy guidance and beyond5
Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown5
Considering the moral implications of psychiatric diagnosis for children5
‘They are always in the top of our mind’: Designated Teachers' views on supporting care experienced children in England5
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Child identity‐based activism in Brazil: Wearing Afro‐style hair to contest discrimination, racism and oppression5
Rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability in the primary classroom5
‘..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 work5
The ban on corporal punishment in a senior high school in Ghana: The perspicacity of teachers at Northern School of Business4
Between advocacy and commodification on Instagram: A case study of sharenting a child with disabilities4
A child's day: A comprehensive analysis of change in children's time use in the UKKillianMullanBristol University Press, Sociology of Children and Families series. ISBN: 978‐1529201703, 212 pp4
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey4
Healthy masculinity construction: The influence of race, faith and athletics4
‘How Does Living in Institution Impact Young Lives?’—Insights From Young People in Ci'aiyuan4
Children and young people's access to food, education, play and leisure in times of crisis: An international, integrative review of policy responses, impacts and adaptations during the COVID4
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Youth participation: Adultism, human rights and professional youth work4
Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research4
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Breaking the silence on special needs children in foster care: The diversity of children in foster care, carers and processes3
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Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China3
Remembrance and ritual in English schools3
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A democratic learning process: When young children under 12 years of age in child welfare services express their wishes for participation3
‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes3
Tracing emotional experiences and the well‐being during the pandemic through drawings by Spanish children3
Law's drawing line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan3
Play across childhood: International perspectives on diverse contexts of play By PeteKing, ShellyNewstead (Ed.): Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. pp. 244. £109.99. Hardcover ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐72 4603
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 difference3
Preschool children's dispositions of collaboration: A Chinese study3
Child sexual abuse in Ghana: A multi‐methods exploratory study3
“My belly tickles! And my vulva too!”: Children's conversations about pleasure in Catalonia (Spain)3
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A Policy‐Driven Scoping Review of the Regulatory and Operational Framework Addressing Obesity in Children in Need in Greece3
Doing Being Orten: Managing Commonplace Super‐Diversity in Swedish School‐Age Educare3
Cultural heterogeneity, family dysfunction and inadequate school support: Ethnic disparities in bullying victimization within China's multiethnic regions3
Youth participation processes in longitudinal out of home care research3
Educating tomorrow: Learning for the post‐pandemic world By ChrisBrownRuthLuzmoreBingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Ltd, 2021. ISBN 978‐1‐80043‐663‐3; 200 pages; £16.99 (pb)3
Children's lives in an era of school closures: Exploring the implications of COVID‐19 for child labour in Ghana3
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Ethics committees and shaping of children's participation in qualitative educational research in Chile3
Transracial adoption practice in South Africa: The Western Cape as a case study3
Teens and Brexit in Northern Ireland: Merging rights with responsibilities3
A comprehensive policy review of evidence‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations3
Free time, gender and the pandemic: An exploration of children's daily routines in the times of COVID‐19 in Chile3
Assessing Child Maltreatment and Its Relationships With Personality, Resilience and Attachment in Adulthood3
Youth provisioning in low‐income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment3
A new materialist (re)configuring of sexuality, age and the discourse of ‘childhood innocence’3
Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system3
Children's Homes: Building or Threatening the Resilience and Rights of Black Orphans and Vulnerable Children3
Young children's perceptions and experiences of school readiness during the transition from preschool to primary school in China3
Research handbook on child soldiersByMark A.DrumblJastine C.Barrett (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019. ISBN 9781789903324, 542 pp., £45 (pb)3
A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil3
Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives3
Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study3
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 Zhengzhou3
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Childhoods and South‐South Migration3
Homeless youth‐led activism and direct action: Lessons from a participatory research project in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal2
Young adult migrants' social experiences in Sweden: ‘Melting pot’ and ‘salad bowl’ perspectives on social integration2
How photos can affect children's perception of animal welfare: A study involving pupils from Portugal and Spain2
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 school2
The future of children's care By ChristianJerr, RobinSen (Eds.), Bristol University Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐6828‐7 (paperback)2
Child as method and/as childism: Conceptual–political intersections and tensions2
Area‐deprivation, social care spending and the rates of children in care proceedings in local authorities in England2
‘What if someone had told me that as a kid?’: Professionals' perspectives on their personal experiences of family‐related childhood adversity and their supportive practice2
The context‐bound phenomenon of decision‐making on referrals: A scoping review2
Nomadic boat‐dwelling children of Southeast Asia: Discourses on the Sama‐Bajau children and implications on decentring child migration studies2
Telepresence robotic technology support for social connectedness during treatment of children with cancer2
The Homeschool Choice: Parents and the Privatization of EducationKate HenleyAverettNew York: New York University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781479891610, 257pp., $30.00 (pb)2
Envisioning action‐oriented and justice‐driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists2
Children's participation in everyday life: An international overview2
Autism and education—The role of Europeanisation in South‐Eastern Europe: Policy mapping in Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia2
Predictors of out‐group empathy among majority and minority children in a conflict‐affected society2
Innovations in care for children separated from parents: Transitioning from residential to family models of service2
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Critical perspectives on research with children: reflexivity, methodology, and researcher identity By SarahRichards, SarahCoombs, Bristol University Press. 2023. pp. 192. ISBN: 978–1–5292‐12
In need of what? Section 17 Provision under the Children Act 19892
Cultivating child and youth decision‐making: The principles and practices of the ReSPECT approach to professional development2
Education of Afghan refugee children in Iran: A structured review of policies2
Girls, sexuality and playground‐assemblages in a South African primary school2
Finding methods for the inclusion of all children: Advancing participatory research with children with disabilities2
Disability and homeschooling: Parents experiences in Kazakhstan2
‘Am I that bad?’: Middle‐class moralism and weight stigma towards parents of children with higher weight2
To Share or Not to Share: Adolescents' Experience With Sharenting2
Using cinema voice to promote positive intimate relationships among European youth: The Lights4Violence Project2
How parenting pre‐teens compares to other child stages: Identifying opportunities to enhance adolescent mental health and wellbeing2
How do childhood and children's rights mean what they mean? Innovating the debate around the social semantics of childhood and children's rights through an interdisciplinary approach2
Children as ‘becomings’—Mapping parental adultcentrism in Hungary2
Mixed methods Participatory Action Research to inform service design based on the Capabilities Approach, in the North of England2
Emotions and involvement of foster carers preparing to welcome children arriving from war zones2
Pakistani children's lived experiences of relationships in the context of child protection services in Norway: An interpretative phenomenological analysis2
Rethinking child and youth activism in challenging times2
Character strengths as a link between family psychosocial environment and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents2
Where are we in the recognition of young adult carers in France?2
China's left‐behind children: Caretaking, parenting, and struggles By XiaojinChen, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press . 2024. pp. 218 (hardcover). ISBN: 97819788371572
Children's agency within digital play and learning: Exploring the impact of shared play experiences on parent–child negotiations2
Life‐history research with children: Extending and enriching the approach2
Children's services and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Italy: A study with educators and parents2
‘It’s like we’re locked in a box’: Girls’ and mothers’ experiences of the police and legal system following child sexual abuse2
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A gender‐based violence prevention programme—Young people's participation and activism in Scotland2
Embodying children’s rights in Italy and Spain: Unmasking some elements of the cultural politics of childhood2
Children's agencies navigating sexism and LGBTI+ phobia in Santiago de Chile's primary school2
Re‐imaging everyday routines and educational aspirations under COVID‐19 lockdown: Narratives of urban middle‐class children in Punjab, India1
What are parents' and children's co‐constructed views on mobile phone use and policies in school?1
Gina Crivello: A tribute1
Theorizing feminist ethics of care in early childhood practice: Possibilities and danger. By RachelLangford (Ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. ISBN 978‐1‐3500‐6747‐9; 232 pages; price £85.50 (h1
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Review of the international play policies and their contribution to supporting a child's right to play1
Moving beyond narrative archetypes among children with cancer1
Child well‐being in early childhood education and care during COVID‐19: Child sensitivity in small, fixed groups1
Debt Bondage, Juju Rituals and Street Thuggery: Instruments of Manipulation in the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Young Nigerian Women in Northern Ghana1
Migranthood: Youth in a new era of deportationbyLaurenHeidbrink (2020) Stanford: Stanford University Press, ISBN 9781503612075, 240 pp., $25 (paperback).1
The relationship between maternal sensitivity and play during early childhood with the development of cognitive skills and socio‐emotional competencies: Longitudinal evidence from Peru1
Learning in and beyond the classroom: Communities of practice in education support for separated children1
Childhood and youth in India: Engagements with modernity By AnandiniDar, DivyaKannan (Eds.), Cham, Switzerland AG: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. pp. 295, $159.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐31 1
The role of foster carers in England and Portugal: Is it solely a parenting role?1
The Rights of Very Young Children in the Digital Environment of the Family Home: Findings From a UK Survey of Children 0–36 Months and Their Parents1
Educating young children with diverse languages and cultures By KarenNemeth, London: Routledge. 2023. pp. 174. £39.99 (paperback). ISBN: 97803675350871
Agile Agency: Applying its Three Principles to Calibrate Adult Lenses While Supporting Young Children's Spontaneous Agency1
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Sharing care: Equal and primary carer fathers and early years parentingRachelBrooksPaulHodkinsonBristol: Bristol University Press, 2020, ISBN 978–1–5292–0596–1, 230 pp., £60 (hb)1
Children, deafness, and deaf cultures in popular media Edited by JohnStephens and VivianYenika‐AgbawUniversity Press of Mississippi, 2023. ISBN: 9781496842053, $30 (paperback)1
Growing up with disabled parents who use personal assistance (PA support): children's views and experiences1
Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach1
The ‘walking with friends to school’ project and its contribution to independent mobility, self‐esteem and happiness1
The post‐war generation remembers: A mixed‐method study exploring children’s attitudes towards World War II commemoration1
Mental Wellbeing Needs and Support for Care‐Experienced Children and Young People in Secondary School and During the Transition to Further Education College1
Errors and mistakes in child protection: International discourses, approaches and strategies By KayBiesel, JudithMasson, NigelParton and TarjaPösö (eds.). Bristol: Policy Press, 2020. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐1
Children's perspectives on their play experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A video‐based interview study1
Differential Response to Child Protection in an Intercultural Context: The Viewpoint and Experience of Parents and Young People From Ethnocultural Minorities1
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Role conflicts of preschool teachers: From children's perspectives in a changing cultural setting in Taiwan1
‘It can be an abuse, even though both have consented’: Swedish preschool practitioners' discussions about teaching (sexual) consent to preschoolers1
Childist theory in the humanities and social sciences1
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‘Childhood in the shadow of prison bars’: How school counselors cope while counseling children of incarcerated parents1
Young People's Experiences of Citizenship in Relation to Place: A Case Study of Three Rural Communities in Germany1
School bullying and the ongoing social dynamics: A thematic analysis of young peoples' perspectives on a specific bullying case1
Post‐socialist geopolitical uncertainties: Researching memories of childhood with ‘child as method’1
Parental mediation in the age of mobile technology1
A content analysis of South Korean newspaper coverage of adolescent cyberbullying1
Narratives of child sexual abuse—Conceptualizing relational complexities1
Children’s consent to child welfare services: Some explorative remarks1
Children’s voices from the past: New historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. By Kristine MoruziNell  Musgrove and Carla  Pascoe Leahy (Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 ISBN 978‐3‐030‐11895‐2, XI1
Medicalisation, development and adult power: Exploring the contributions of the medical system to child disenfranchisement in theory and society1
Can club activities foster adolescents' citizenship in sub‐Saharan Africa?: The evidence from the Good Neighbors' club in Malawi1
‘Crossed the line’: Sexuality discourses of motherhood under 15 years in Uganda1
Gamification and family leisure to alleviate the psychological impact of confinement due to COVID‐191
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Adolescent trajectories in situations of adversity: A mixed‐method approach to understanding educational and leadership outcomes1
‘Keeping the informal safe’: Strategies for developing peer support initiatives for young people who have experienced sexual violence1
‘Children say playing and adults say working’: Children negotiating regulations on digital media in a Swedish preschool1
The COVID‐School and Social Responsibility: Creative Expressions of Children's Rights and Agency in Iceland During the Pandemic1
‘Stranger danger’, ‘abduction risks’ and ‘fear’: Media coverage of children's independent mobility and parental attitudes1
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Dilemma of family education for hearing‐impaired children in China: Responsibility or evasion?1
Hiding and seeking: Children's lived experiences during COVID‐191
Rebels in their own job: How digging into a municipal mystery turned invited youth participation in an urban planning process into uninvited activism1
Body satisfaction and self‐perception profile: Reliability and validity analyses of the Children's body image scale for Turkish children1
Mapping Sustainable Development Goals for Children in India: Progress and Present ChallengesBy SwatiDutta and Khanindra Ch.Das, Singapore: Springer, 2024. 210 pp. £96.29 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐981‐99‐89011
Children's grief maps—Capturing children's grief and sorrow in family and close relationships1
Does gender influence children's and young people's caring? A qualitative, systematic review and meta‐ethnography1
‘Staying Close’: Enabling social interdependence for young people leaving residential care in England1
Containing childhood By DanielleRussell (Ed.), Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2022. pp. 240, $99 (hb). ISBN: 97814968411791
Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well‐being of asylum‐seeking children in a phase of liminality1
Does the early childhood education and care in India contribute to children's skill development?1
‘How can you be friends with that fatty?’: The othered body in narratives on weight‐based bullying1
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Navigating the rights of intersex children in Zimbabwe1
Why are you allowed to go to school on your own? Exploring children's voices on independent mobility1
Becoming a ‘good parent’: Social class and talk labour among South Korean parents1
Adult narratives of childhood language brokering: Learning what it means to be bilingual0
Surviving on the periphery of society: Experiences of street children in Accra, Ghana0
Acceptance, obedience and resistance: Children's perceptions of street trading in Nigeria0
Establishing a sense of community: Moral socialization in girls‐only football for inclusion0
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