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With Children and Youth

Edited by Hans A. Skott-Myhre, Kiaras Gharabaghi, 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 ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by Katherine Covell & R. Brian Howe
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” ...

Babies for the Nation

By Denyse Baillargeon
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Medical, History, Canadian History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among ...

Children in English-Canadian Society

By Cynthia R. Comacchio & Neil Sutherland
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Social Science, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

“So often a long-awaited book is disappointing. Happily such is not the case with Sutherland’s masterpiece.” Robert M. Stamp, University of Calgary, in The Canadian Historical Review
“Sutherland’s ...

Cold War Comforts

By Tarah Brookfield
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Social Science, Child Studies, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women’s efforts to protect children’s health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. ...

Growing Up in Armyville

By Deborah Harrison & Patrizia Albanese
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous “Armyville,” Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district ...

Ontario Boys

By Christopher J. Greig
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Child Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a ...

The One Best Way?

By Aleck Ostry & Tasnim Nathoo
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, History, Canadian History, Child Studies, Medical, Public Health, History Of Medicine
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work−family balance, public decency, the safety of our food ...

Fostering Nation?

By Veronica Strong-Boag
Subjects: Political Science, Social Services, Social Science, Sociology, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It ...

Taking Responsibility for Children

Edited by Robert Noggle & Samantha Brennan
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 ...