Cruel But Not Unusual

Edited by Ramona Alaggia & Cathy Vine
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Gender Studies, Family & Relationships, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse

Picture family life in Canada. Does it include women or girls being murdered, on average, every two and a half days? Or the fact that intimate partner violence counts as nearly one-third of all reports ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by R. Brian Howe & Katherine Covell
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to persons” ...

The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, 2nd edition

By Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, and J.C. Blokhuis
Subjects: Social Science, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention ...

With Children and Youth

Edited by Kiaras Gharabaghi, Hans A. Skott-Myhre, and Mark Krueger
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Services, Social Policy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative ...

Youth, Education, and Marginality

Edited by Kate Tilleczek & H. Bruce Ferguson
Subjects: Education, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: SickKids Community and Mental Health

Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators are complemented by youth poetry, ...

Shattering the Illusion

By Tracy J. Trothen
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Child Abuse, Law, Child Advocacy, Religion
Series: Editions SR

Shattering the Illusion is the first book to gather and comparatively analyze policies addressing child sexual abuse complaints in a selection of religious institutions in Canada. Although there is a substantial ...

Child Welfare

Edited by Kathleen Kufeldt & Brad McKenzie
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Policy, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy

Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, ...

Taking Responsibility for Children

Edited by Samantha Brennan & Robert Noggle
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Philosophy, Ethics, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in Taking Responsibility for Children offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches ...

Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Edited by Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, and Gerald R. Adams
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Social Work, Political Science, Social Policy

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book ...

Something to Cry About

By Susan M. Turner
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Political Science, Social Policy, Philosophy, Social Science, Social Work
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Why does our society think it is okay to hit children?

Almost everyone thinks it is wrong to abuse a child. But many parents and teachers believe it is okay to spank children, rap their knuckles, slap ...