Unequal Childhoods: Young Children's Lives in Poor Countries

by Penn; Helen

• ISBN13: 9780415321013
• ISBN10: 0415321018
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

For many children and their families, life is hard, grim and short: the global statistics on children are truly appalling. While problems of childhood poverty are most widespread in developing countries, formidable inequalities exist in more prosperous countries. This book addresses the question of unequal childhoods, both between and within countries, and the ways in which they are recognised, defined, catalogued and understood.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
Abbreviations	xvii
1 Global inequalities	1	(18)
2 Interpreting poverty	19	(26)
3 Understanding early childhood	45	(21)
4 Lending a helping hand	66	(22)
5 Kazakhstan	88	(16)
6 Swaziland	104	(15)
7 India	119	(23)
PAWAN K. GUPTA
8 Childhood and social inequality in Brazil	142	(29)
FÚLVIA ROSEMBERG
9 The ethics of intervention	171	(16)
Notes	187	(8)
Bibliography	195	(14)
Index	209