Children & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Children & Society is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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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 education28
Free school meals for all poor children in Europe: An important and affordable target?27
Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse27
‘Each child must be assigned a key person’: Context and interpretation of a statutory requirement in English Early Childhood Education and Care settings23
Records of personal assistance applications reveal young carers: Viewed from the rights of the child22
Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors21
Weaving Smartphones Into Mother–Infant Interaction: Digital Disruptions or Participatory Possibilities?19
Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness19
Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence19
The legal, policy, institutional and programmatic context for protecting children against online sexual exploitation in Tunisia18
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Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights17
The impact of COVID ‐19 lockdown on children's and adolescents' mental health in Greece17
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual14
Schools as Sites of Activism: Students' Political Socialisation and Activism at School13
A Critical Review of the 2025 RSHE Guidance and Alternative Approach Framed in Safe Uncertainty13
‘I Want to Learn and Speak Hoche, Rather I Am Becoming Han’: Amplifying Minoritized Indigenous Children's Voices Through a Multilingual Curriculum in an Indigenous School13
Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto12
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability12
Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia12
“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan11
Barriers to the Accessibility of Childcare Services for Children With Disabilities Aged 0 to 5 Years: Perspectives of Parents and Childcare Staff11
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‘Why blame the girls’?: Contextual factors enabling juvenile prostitution in a Ghanaian metropolis11
Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–202011
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts11
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 Portugal10
The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life10
The Importance of Relationship in Independent Advocacy for Care‐Experienced Young People10
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance: Remote delivery of interventions during Covid‐1910
Positive and Negative Experiences of Caring Among Adolescent Young Carers10
The transformative potential of LGBTQ+ Children's picture books By JenniferMiller. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, ISBN 9781496840004. 270 pp., US$25 (pb)10
Criminal responsibility of older children: The failings of doli incapax in Australia10
Throw Your Voice: Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani ChildhoodsBy MeghanneBarker, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2024. 234 pp. US$ 32.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐177648‐910
“I always think about tomorrow what I'll eat” an exploration of the experiences of adolescents in poor urban contexts in Accra, Ghana10
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Seeing disability in children's made for television programmes: An Australian case study9
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool9
Re‐thinking youth work as initial mental health support for young people9
Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying9
Ending racial disproportionality in child welfare: A systematic review9
Questioning children's activism: What is new or old in theory and practice?9
What About Their Future? An Analysis of Child Protection Systems' Focus on the Future of Newborn Children in Care Order Decisions9
The non‐protesting children in the 2018 Parkland school shooting protests and their freedom not to express views in child participation spaces9
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 pandemic9
Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action9
Supporting living together: Group work on animal rights for children9
Planning Without Children? Representation and Participation in Czech Strategic Urban and National Policies8
Children and Violence: Agency, Experience and Representation in and Beyond Armed Conflict. By Christelle MolimaBameka, Jastine C.Barrett, MohamedKamara, KarlHanson, and Mark A.Drumbl (eds.), Abingdon,8
Co‐Designing a Children's Transition Charter for the Transition to School: Opening Participatory Spaces to Hear Children's Voices8
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Feminist reflections on childhood: A history and call to action By Penny A.Weiss. Temple University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781439918685, 293 pp.8
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit7
The assessment of cliques in bound child and adolescent groups: A systematic scoping review7
Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges: A focus group study7
Poverty for lunch: A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE7
Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown7
Rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability in the primary classroom7
The Impact of Family Bonding Activity Type and Time on Young Children's Social–Emotional Development7
Artificial intelligence for children: UNICEF's policy guidance and beyond7
The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the UK7
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); 9781978826
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Bullying in Spanish high schools: Intersection of gender and immigrant background6
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 COVID6
Governance, Migration and Educational Rights: A Policy Analysis of Migrant Children's Educational Access in Sichuan, China6
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey6
Amplifying Marginalised Voices: A Rapid Evidence Review of Participatory Methods Engaging Justice‐Involved Youth6
Children's Digital Rights to Accessible and Reliable Public Sector Communication6
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Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency6
‘They are always in the top of our mind’: Designated Teachers' views on supporting care experienced children in England6
‘How Does Living in Institution Impact Young Lives?’—Insights From Young People in Ci'aiyuan6
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An Inclusive Approach to Gardening in Children's Settings: An Observational Study6
Child identity‐based activism in Brazil: Wearing Afro‐style hair to contest discrimination, racism and oppression6
Considering the moral implications of psychiatric diagnosis for children6
Healthy masculinity construction: The influence of race, faith and athletics6
Gendering innocence: An empirical inquiry into the lived experience of gender incongruence in childhood6
Children's lives in an era of school closures: Exploring the implications of COVID‐19 for child labour in Ghana5
Doing Being Orten: Managing Commonplace Super‐Diversity in Swedish School‐Age Educare5
Children's Homes: Building or Threatening the Resilience and Rights of Black Orphans and Vulnerable Children5
Measures to Ensure That Social Workers Render Holistic Family Reunification Services: A South African Perspective5
A democratic learning process: When young children under 12 years of age in child welfare services express their wishes for participation5
No Hiding Places—A Review of Representations of Children's Right to Play in Schoolyards Across Wider Irish Educational Policies and Guidelines5
Students' Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Finland5
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The Voice of a Reference Group in Research With Children5
Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China5
Youth provisioning in low‐income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment5
Between advocacy and commodification on Instagram: A case study of sharenting a child with disabilities5
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Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research5
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Youth participation processes in longitudinal out of home care research5
A new materialist (re)configuring of sexuality, age and the discourse of ‘childhood innocence’5
Cultural heterogeneity, family dysfunction and inadequate school support: Ethnic disparities in bullying victimization within China's multiethnic regions5
“People as normal as possible”. Analysis of the construction of subjects in materials for the prevention of gender violence among teenagers in Spain5
The ban on corporal punishment in a senior high school in Ghana: The perspicacity of teachers at Northern School of Business5
Free time, gender and the pandemic: An exploration of children's daily routines in the times of COVID‐19 in Chile5
Young children's perceptions and experiences of school readiness during the transition from preschool to primary school in China5
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Homeless youth‐led activism and direct action: Lessons from a participatory research project in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal4
Law's drawing line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan4
‘She Tells Me I Am a Strong Person’: Romanian and Polish Young Migrants' Talk About Significant Adults in the School Settings in Sweden4
Transracial adoption practice in South Africa: The Western Cape as a case study4
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Childhoods and South‐South Migration4
Cripping the Campus: Youth With Disabilities, Agency, and Activism in Saudi Arabia Universities4
Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives4
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Tracing emotional experiences and the well‐being during the pandemic through drawings by Spanish children4
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 Zhengzhou4
Children as ‘becomings’—Mapping parental adultcentrism in Hungary4
Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the ‘Happiest Country in the World’: A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study4
The Becoming of Children and Caregiving Fathers—A Video Ethnography of Individual Parent Conversations at Swedish Child Health Centres4
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 4604
Remembrance and ritual in English schools4
Climate Anxiety in Early Childhood: Mental Health, Displacement and Affective Injustice in International and European Climate Governance4
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Child sexual abuse in Ghana: A multi‐methods exploratory study4
Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system4
‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes4
Preschool children's dispositions of collaboration: A Chinese study4
“My belly tickles! And my vulva too!”: Children's conversations about pleasure in Catalonia (Spain)4
The Impact of Parental Divorce on Children Through the Mothers' Lens: A Phenomenological Study4
Ethics committees and shaping of children's participation in qualitative educational research in Chile4
‘Like a Kid's Book’: Pilot Testing of a Visual Informed Consent Form With Children in Canada, Ghana and Laos4
Assessing Child Maltreatment and Its Relationships With Personality, Resilience and Attachment in Adulthood4
Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study4
A comprehensive policy review of evidence‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations4
An Aid or an Obstacle? Parent and Teacher Perspectives on the Impact of Technology on Children's Wellbeing and School Life4
Parental Understandings of ‘Stranger Danger’: Balancing Fear of Victimisation by Strangers Against Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Children4
A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil4
A Policy‐Driven Scoping Review of the Regulatory and Operational Framework Addressing Obesity in Children in Need in Greece4
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 difference4
Envisioning action‐oriented and justice‐driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists4
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Young adult migrants' social experiences in Sweden: ‘Melting pot’ and ‘salad bowl’ perspectives on social integration4
The context‐bound phenomenon of decision‐making on referrals: A scoping review3
How Do 9–10‐Year‐Olds Conceptualise, Engage in, and Navigate Banter Within Primary Education? A Figurational Analysis3
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 approach3
How photos can affect children's perception of animal welfare: A study involving pupils from Portugal and Spain3
To Share or Not to Share: Adolescents' Experience With Sharenting3
‘Am I that bad?’: Middle‐class moralism and weight stigma towards parents of children with higher weight3
Area‐deprivation, social care spending and the rates of children in care proceedings in local authorities in England3
Child as method and/as childism: Conceptual–political intersections and tensions3
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Childist theory in the humanities and social sciences3
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 3
Girls, sexuality and playground‐assemblages in a South African primary school3
Where are we in the recognition of young adult carers in France?3
A gender‐based violence prevention programme—Young people's participation and activism in Scotland3
Using cinema voice to promote positive intimate relationships among European youth: The Lights4Violence Project3
Children's participation in everyday life: An international overview3
Children's services and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Italy: A study with educators and parents3
Editorial: Sexuality Through Children's Eyes: Experiences, Perceptions and Meanings3
Autism and education—The role of Europeanisation in South‐Eastern Europe: Policy mapping in Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia3
China's left‐behind children: Caretaking, parenting, and struggles By XiaojinChen, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press . 2024. pp. 218 (hardcover). ISBN: 97819788371573
Critical perspectives on research with children: reflexivity, methodology, and researcher identity By SarahRichards, SarahCoombs, Bristol University Press. 2023. pp. 192. ISBN: 978–1–5292‐13
Children's Ambivalent Experiences of Leisure Screen Use: Acceleration, Alienation and Resonance in the Digital Age3
Dilemma of family education for hearing‐impaired children in China: Responsibility or evasion?3
The future of children's care By ChristianJerr, RobinSen (Eds.), Bristol University Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐6828‐7 (paperback)3
Disability and homeschooling: Parents experiences in Kazakhstan3
Children's agencies navigating sexism and LGBTI+ phobia in Santiago de Chile's primary school3
Education of Afghan refugee children in Iran: A structured review of policies3
Pakistani children's lived experiences of relationships in the context of child protection services in Norway: An interpretative phenomenological analysis3
Finding methods for the inclusion of all children: Advancing participatory research with children with disabilities3
‘What if someone had told me that as a kid?’: Professionals' perspectives on their personal experiences of family‐related childhood adversity and their supportive practice3
Nomadic boat‐dwelling children of Southeast Asia: Discourses on the Sama‐Bajau children and implications on decentring child migration studies3
Telepresence robotic technology support for social connectedness during treatment of children with cancer3
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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 Parents3
Rebels in their own job: How digging into a municipal mystery turned invited youth participation in an urban planning process into uninvited activism3
Parental mediation in the age of mobile technology3
Growing up with disabled parents who use personal assistance (PA support): children's views and experiences2
‘Staying Close’: Enabling social interdependence for young people leaving residential care in England2
‘Children say playing and adults say working’: Children negotiating regulations on digital media in a Swedish preschool2
Relational Mobility of Street‐Connected Youth in Urban Northeast Brazil2
Role conflicts of preschool teachers: From children's perspectives in a changing cultural setting in Taiwan2
‘I'd Probably Scroll by’: An Exploration of Young People's Views on Spotting and Stopping Misinformation2
Sense of Belonging Among Immigrant Adolescents: The Role of Schools2
Rethinking Child Activism: Civil Society Organisations' Practices, Challenges, and Transformative Approaches2
Hiding and seeking: Children's lived experiences during COVID ‐192
‘It can be an abuse, even though both have consented’: Swedish preschool practitioners' discussions about teaching (sexual) consent to preschoolers2
Children's perspectives on their play experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A video‐based interview study2
Does gender influence children's and young people's caring? A qualitative, systematic review and meta‐ethnography2
Body satisfaction and self‐perception profile: Reliability and validity analyses of the Children's body image scale for Turkish children2
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: 978‐981‐99‐89012
Medicalisation, development and adult power: Exploring the contributions of the medical system to child disenfranchisement in theory and society2
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
Gina Crivello: A tribute2
Children's agency within digital play and learning: Exploring the impact of shared play experiences on parent–child negotiations2
Children, deafness, and deaf cultures in popular media Edited by JohnStephens and VivianYenika‐AgbawUniversity Press of Mississippi, 2023. ISBN: 9781496842053, $30 (paperback)2
Narratives of child sexual abuse—Conceptualizing relational complexities2
‘How can you be friends with that fatty?’: The othered body in narratives on weight‐based bullying2
‘We Are Only Playing’: Reflections on the Pandemic's Effects on Immigrant Preschoolers' Mentalisation and Play During the Sand Play Workshops2
Adolescent trajectories in situations of adversity: A mixed‐method approach to understanding educational and leadership outcomes2
Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach2
Review of the international play policies and their contribution to supporting a child's right to play2
Becoming a ‘good parent’: Social class and talk labour among South Korean parents2
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Negotiating Caring and Education: A Small‐Scale Study of Young Carers and Their Transitions Towards Independence and Adulthood2
Getting to the Art of the Matter: Exploring Autonomy and Relationality in Babies' Right to Be Heard Through the Participatory Arts2
The COVID‐School and Social Responsibility: Creative Expressions of Children's Rights and Agency in Iceland During the Pandemic2
Young People's Experiences of Citizenship in Relation to Place: A Case Study of Three Rural Communities in Germany2
What are parents' and children's co‐constructed views on mobile phone use and policies in school?2
Agile Agency: Applying its Three Principles to Calibrate Adult Lenses While Supporting Young Children's Spontaneous Agency2
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Mental Wellbeing Needs and Support for Care‐Experienced Children and Young People in Secondary School and During the Transition to Further Education College2
Cultivating child and youth decision‐making: The principles and practices of the ReSPECT approach to professional development2
Educating young children with diverse languages and cultures By KarenNemeth, London: Routledge. 2023. pp. 174. £39.99 (paperback). ISBN: 97803675350872
Recognised in a Quarrel? Positioning of the Child and Parent in Children's and Young People's Stories of Child–Parent Conflicts2
Does the early childhood education and care in India contribute to children's skill development?2
Theorising Respect and Disrespect by and About Children and Young People: A Qualitative Systematic Literature Review2
Waiting in the Austrian asylum system: The well‐being of asylum‐seeking children in a phase of liminality2
Debt Bondage, Juju Rituals and Street Thuggery: Instruments of Manipulation in the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Young Nigerian Women in Northern Ghana2
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Re‐imaging everyday routines and educational aspirations under COVID‐19 lockdown: Narratives of urban middle‐class children in Punjab, India2
Interlocked: The ethics of care and the ethics of justice in children's discourses on the parent–child relationship in Chile2
Children's grief maps—Capturing children's grief and sorrow in family and close relationships2
Screens and Preschool Children: A Qualitative Exploration of Parental Experiences2
A content analysis of South Korean newspaper coverage of adolescent cyberbullying2
‘Crossed the line’: Sexuality discourses of motherhood under 15 years in Uganda2
Learning in and beyond the classroom: Communities of practice in education support for separated children2
‘Stranger danger’, ‘abduction risks’ and ‘fear’: Media coverage of children's independent mobility and parental attitudes2
Navigating the rights of intersex children in Zimbabwe2
Differential Response to Child Protection in an Intercultural Context: The Viewpoint and Experience of Parents and Young People From Ethnocultural Minorities2
‘We Teach Kids About It So They Don't Get Addicted’: Gender, Porn and Sex Education in New Zealand2
Containing childhood By DanielleRussell (Ed.), Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2022. pp. 240, $99 (hb). ISBN: 97814968411792
Parenting Across Distances: Negotiation, Cooperation and Resistance Among Chinese Liushou (留守) Families2
Building Trust in the First Stages of Research With Children2
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Rethinking child and youth activism in challenging times2
Can club activities foster adolescents' citizenship in sub‐Saharan Africa?: The evidence from the Good Neighbors' club in Malawi2
When child marriage and child welfare intersect: Understanding the barriers to education1
A qualitative study exploring the perceptions of health among pre‐teen girls from disadvantaged communities in Dublin1
Temporalities in Crisis: Analysing the Sacchi v. Argentina Case and Children's Rights in the Climate Emergency1
Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse and Gang Involvement. Violence at Home, Violence on‐Road by Jade LevellBristol: Bristol University Press, 2023ISBN: 978–1 529 219 807, 216 pp, £85.00 (hb).1
How can a researcher minimise causing harm when conducting interviews with particularly vulnerable children in longitudinal research?1
Surveillance or Support? Policing Harmful Sexual Behaviour Among Young People in Schools1
Being family via WeChat: Children's interpretation of long‐distance family relationships1
Welfare Cooperative Production of Community Care for ‘One Old and One Young’ in China: Practice, Dilemma, and Mutual Empowerment1
A causeway to impact: A proposed new integrated framework for intergenerational community‐based participatory action research1
Children's literature as a motivational factor for physical activities through the example of Jaroslav Foglar1
Exposure to parental incarceration and subsequent illicit drug use: A review of the literature1
Latent classes and longitudinal patterns of material hardship as predictors of child well‐being1
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