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The Fragility of Children’s Rights in Policies Regarding Poverty

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Children’s rights have grown in academic and political discourse over the last century, but children’s rights remain fragile and overly dependent on political whim and economic stability. In this chapter, children’s rights will be discussed based on new research showing how a focus on children’s rights can create a strong basis for politicians and advocates to tackle child poverty. The aim of the study was to examine the extent to which the discourse of children’s rights has permeated policies on child poverty. It examined how children’s rights emerged in policies on child support (maintenance) in Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom from 1991 to 2011. An analytical framework was needed in order to examine these policies from this perspective; therefore, the goal was to create a framework that was both sophisticated and easy to use by academics, advocates and politicians alike.

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Lisa Jeans, C. (2017). The Fragility of Children’s Rights in Policies Regarding Poverty. In: Sieh, E., McGregor, J. (eds) Human Dignity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56005-6_7

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