Childhood : changing contexts / edited by Arnlaug Leira, Chiara Saraceno

Includes bibliographical references and index

Childhood : changing contexts / Arnlaug Leira and Chiara Saraceno -- Part I: Policies of childcare -- Childcare services in 25 European Union member states : the Barcelona targets revisited / Janneke Plantenga ... [and others] -- Policy packages for families with children in 11 European countries : multiple approaches / Jeanne Fagnani and Antoine Math -- The 'meaning' of children in Dutch and german family policy / Trudie Knijn and Ilona Ostner -- Part II: Children in an ageing society -- Changes in children's age and generation mosaics : challenges to research and policy / Gunhild O. Hagestad -- Grandchildhood in Germany and Italy : an exploration / Wolfgang Keck and Chiara Saraceno -- Children's welfare in ageing Europe : generations apart? / An-Magritt Jensen -- Part III: Diversities in childhood -- First born in Amsterdam : the changing mother-child setting / Cecile Wetzels -- Changing childhoods : migrant children and the confrontation of uncertainty / Nadina Christopoulou and Sonja de Leeuw -- Diverse childhoods : implications for childcare, protection, participation and research practice / Andy West, Claire O'Kane and Tina Hyder -- Childhood : a homogenous generational group? / Maria Carmen Belloni and Renzo Carriero -- Street youth's life-course transitions / Cecilia Benoit ... [and others] -- Part IV: Changing discourses of childhood -- Children, new social risks and policy change : a Lego future? / Jane Jensen -- Investing in children and childhood : a new welfare policy paradigm and its implications / Ruth Lester