Philosophy and Child Poverty: Reflections on the Ethics and Politics of Poor Children and Their Families (Paperback, 2019)

Introduction; Nicolas Brando and Gottfried Schweiger.- Section I: Definitions and Measurements.- Chapter 1. Child poverty, impoverished parenting, and normative childhood: some words of caution; Douglas Hanes.- Chapter 2. Children in Measurements of Poverty within Populations:  Two Problems with Current Indexes; Katarina Pitasse.- Chapter 3. Poverty, Social Expectations, and the Family; Jonathan Wolff.- Chapter 4. Beyond the Material Wounds of Child Poverty: The Conceptualization of Child Povertz as Moral Damage; Mar Cabezas and Carlos Pitillas.- Section II: Children and Families Living in Poverty.- Chapter 5. Making them strong? Vulnerability and resilience in poor children; Alexander Bagattini and Rebecca Gutwald.- Chapter 6. Humiliation and Child Poverty; Gottfried Schweiger.- Chapter 7. Education, Voice and Empowerment: Learning with and from Children in Poverty; Yasmin Rosie N. and Dadvand Babak.- Chapter 8. The Nature of Nurture: Poverty, Father Absence and Gender Equality; Alison Denham.- Chapter 9.  ‘I’ve been trying to change my life heaps but I always end up back here’. The complex relationship between poverty, parental substance dependency, and self-control; Anke Snoek.- Chapter 10. Disability and Child Poverty; Sarah Gorman.- Chapter 11. Precarity of Childhood; Jennifer Ang.- Chapter 12. Children in liminality: Case studies from Ireland and Iran; Annie Cummins and Amin Sharifi Isaloo.- Section IV: Rights, Responsibilities, and Policies.- Chapter 13. A Duty-Based Approach to Children’s Right to Freedom from Extreme Poverty; Stamantia Liosi.- Chapter 14. Towards an Ontological Approach to Care and Child Poverty; Georgios Karakasis.- Chapter 15. Civic Tenderness as a Response to Child Poverty in America; Justin Clardy.- Chapter 16. Parenting the Parents: The Ethics of Parent-Targeted Paternalism  in the Context of Anti-Poverty Policies; Douglas MacKay.- Chapter 17. Is poverty eroding parental rights in Britain? The case of child protection in the early 21st centry; Alicia-Dorothy Mornington and Alexandrine Guyard.