Child Protection in England, 1960-2000 : Expertise, Experience, and Emotion.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (218 pages)
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood Series .
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Child Protection in England -- Expertise, Experience, Emotion -- Voluntary Action and Public Participation -- Histories of Childhood and Families -- Chapter Outline -- Chapter 2: The Battered Child Syndrome: Parents and Children as Objects of Medical Study -- The 'Battered Child Syndrome'1 -- America -- Britain -- Recovering the Child30 -- Studying the Parent -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Hearing Children's Experiences in Public -- Where Was the Child? The Maria Colwell Case -- Children's Experiences: Rhetoric or Practice? -- Adult Interpretations of Child Experience -- Helplines69 -- Children in Public Policy -- Cleveland: A Case Study -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Inculcating Child Expertise in Schools and Homes -- Child Protection Education -- Education Through Fiction -- Representing 'Truth'? -- Child Protection Films -- Gatekeepers: The Home -- Parents as Teachers as Parents -- Child Experts and the 1980s -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Collective Action by Parents and Complicating Family Life -- Parents as Partners -- Early Self-Help Groups -- Falsely Accused Parents50 -- Professional Tensions -- Emotional Labour -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Mothers, Media, and Individualism in Public Policy -- '[T]he Sickness of the Twentieth Century' -- 'Mothers on the Warpath' -- Gender and False Accusations45 -- Sara Payne and Mothers in the Media -- Media Partnership -- Individualism in Public Policy -- Professional Retaliation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: The Visibility of Survivors and Experience as Expertise -- Confessional Cultures? -- Agony Aunts -- Autobiography -- Childhood Matters -- Collective Action -- Survivors as Experts -- Role of the Media -- Childhood and Survivorship -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Newness -- Contemporary Relevance -- Index.