Troubling Children

First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

I: Introduction; 1: Troubling Children: Children and Social Problems; II: Children in Societal Crises; 2: A Threatened Generation: Impediments to Children's Quality of Life in Kenya; 3: When Parents Discuss the Price of Bread: Albanian Children and the Economic Crisis; III: Pregnancy and Infancy; 4: Little Strangers: Pregnancy Conduct and the Twentieth-Century Rhetoric of Endangerment; 5: "Crack Babies" and the Politics of Reproduction and Nurturance; IV: Families and Children; 6: Ritual, Magic, and Educational Toys: Symbolic Aspects of Toy Selection; 7: The Changing Meanings of Spanking; 8: The Positive Functions of Rock and Roll Music for Children and Their Parents; V: Schools and Children; 9: Normalizing Daycare-Normalizing the Child: Daycare Discourse in Popular Magazines, 1900-1990; 10: The Medicalization and Demedicalization of School Refusal: Constructing an Educational Problem in Japan; VI: Children's Perspectives on Social Problems; 11: If We Don't Do Anything Now, There Won't Be Anything Left: Categories of Concern in Children's Drawings of Environmental Crisis