Theoretical and Empirical Insights into Child and Family Poverty Cross National Perspectives / [electronic resource] : edited by Elizabeth Fernandez, Anat Zeira, Tiziano Vecchiato, Cinzia Canali. - Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2015. - 1 online resource (XXIII, 319 p. 43 illus.) - Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research, 10 1879-5196 ; .

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Understanding Child and Family Poverty An Introduction to some key themes and issues -- Child poverty in the international context (Elizabeth Fernandez; Ioana Ramia) -- Not Just Statistics: Making Children's Poverty More Visible (Peter Saunders) -- Child Poverty and Child Well-Being in International Perspective (Jonathan Bradshaw) -- Why are poor people always with us? (Michael Wearing; Elizabeth Fernandez) -- Disadvantage, Equity and Children's Rights in 21st Century Australasia (Marie Connolly) -- Children's subjective wellbeing in disadvantaged situations (Carme Montserrat; Ferran Casas; James Ferreira Moura Jr) -- 7 Child Poverty in Germany: Conceptual aspects and Core Findings (Sabine Andresen, Susann Fegter, Klaus Hurrelmann, Monika Pupeter, Ulrich Schneekloth) -- Poor for How Long? Chronic Versus Transient Child Poverty in the United States (Sara Kimberlin, Jill Duerr Berrick) -- Child Poverty Reducation in Brazil: Reversing Bismarck? (Armando Barrientos, Amanda Telias) -- Poverty and social exclusion of Children and Families in Italy and Europe: Some comparisons (Cinzia Canali; Devis Geron) -- Poverty in Italy (Tiziano Vecchiato) -- A Family centred approach in helping poor children in Hong Kong (Joyce, L C Ma) -- Young people at Risk of Lifelong Poverty: Youth Homelessness in Australia (Patricia McNamara) -- Poor Children, Poor Services, Poor Outcomes (Maria Herczog) -- In what ways might poverty contribute to maltreatment? (Marian Brandon) -- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in Australia: Poverty and child welfare involvement (Claire Tilbury) -- Family Poverty: Reviewing the Evidence for an Integrated Community-Based Practice (Anita Lightburn, Chris Warren-Adamson) -- Reducing Poverty and Investing in Children and Families (Elizabeth Fernandez, Anat Zeira, Tiziano Vecchiato, Cinzia Canali) -- Contributors.

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