Childhood and poverty: from the children's point of view.

Autor/in	Saporiti, Angelo
Titel	Childhood and poverty: from the children's point of view.
Quelle	Aus: Growing up in Europe - contemporary horizons in childhood and youth studies. Berlin: deGruyter (1995) S. 237-247Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen 2
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
Schlagwörter	Forschung; Soziale Rolle; Kind; Armut; Sozialpolitik; Statistik; Status; Italien
Abstract	Poverty is a life circumstance affecting individuals irrespective of their age and sex, albeit to a different extent. In social research and policy, however, children seem to be immune from poverty: one counts poor families, young adults, adults and elderly, but not poor children ... . That means that one speaks of poverty among children but only through the medium of a third party. Children suffer from poverty because their parents are in poverty.... Likewise, childhood is not recognised as a social status - that is, a social standing in a system of social relationships playing its own role in the organisation of the society, and having certain rights and duties expressed by rules. This contribution seeks to link childhood and poverty together explicitly. It has thereby a two-fold purpose. Firstly, to consider what empirical evidence supports the thesis that children do not yet enjoy full membership in society. Secondly, to identify the key themes that must be addressed if this state of affairs is to be remedied, with particular attention to the issue of poverty. After a brief introduction on the general theme of poverty this contribution opens with an examination of the scanty information available about children's poverty, followed by a critical description of the ways in which statistical data in this area are collected and organised. The discussion then introduces the concept of "childhood" as a key element in analysing and understanding poverty among children. The paper concludes with a consideration of both sociological and policy- related questions posed by the theme of childhood and poverty. (DIPF/ orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2001_(CD)