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Children's Agency in Contact Disputes: Navigating Protection, Participation and Alienation

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how children's agency is framed, constrained and sometimes co‐opted within contested child arrangement proceedings, particularly in the context of alienation and coercive behaviours. Drawing on qualitative interviews with legal professionals in Northern Ireland, the study explores how statutory interventions, though well ...
Mairead McCormack
wiley   +1 more source

A Critical Review of the 2025 RSHE Guidance and Alternative Approach Framed in Safe Uncertainty

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This policy review critically examines the English government's 2025 statutory guidance on Relationships Education, Relationship and Sex Education and Health Education (RSHE), analysing its educational assumptions, strengths and limitations through the lens of safe uncertainty.
Emily Setty, Jonny Hunt
wiley   +2 more sources

Online Risk Behaviours Among Adolescents: Identifying Areas of Digital Vulnerability

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a period during which they undergo important physical, emotional and social changes, adolescence is of great importance for minors. In addition, adolescence is an initial stage in terms of children's use of their own mobile devices and their first access to the internet and social networks, an activity that becomes a generalised habit in ...
Sonia Carcelén‐García   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teenage Pregnancy and Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Marriage and Pregnancy: Primary Data Analysis in Akatsi North, Ghana

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A high prevalence of teenage pregnancy in Ghana has raised critical concerns. This study aims to understand the causes of early pregnancy in Akatsi North, Ghana, while also assessing the underlying attitudes of young people toward future marriage and pregnancy.
Jihye Kim, Wendy Olsen, Mohammed Ibrahim
wiley   +1 more source

Parental Understandings of ‘Stranger Danger’: Balancing Fear of Victimisation by Strangers Against Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Children

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For decades, children have been taught about ‘stranger danger’. Fear of the stranger has been associated with overly cautious parenting strategies, and the curtailing of freedoms as children transition to adolescents. This article aims to examine the extent to which parents consider this issue of stranger danger in their decisions to grant ...
Craig Collie
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the ‘Happiest Country in the World’: A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study explores what kinds of everyday ideas a small group of Finnish children have about happiness and unhappiness, and how these ideas relate to narrated practices and actions aimed at finding happiness. We conducted collaborative drawing and storytelling workshops with 10–12‐year‐old Finnish children (N = 8).
Jennifer De Paola   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stressing Equality or Embracing Diversity? How Teen Activists Navigate Societal Beliefs About Youth Activism

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Civically and politically participating children and teens encounter contrasting societal beliefs about their identities and actions. Some portray them as heroes, others as naive or rebellious; some celebrate their efforts, while others dismiss or diminish them.
Markéta Supa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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