Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Images of children and morality3 Moral campaigns for children’s welfare in the nineteenth century 4 Liberalism or distributional justice? The morality of child welfare laws 5 Can child abuse be defined? 6 Is male circumcision morally defensible? 7 Meditations on parental love: the transcendence of the rights/welfare Divide MAKINGS DIAMANTIDES 8 Justice and childhood: reflections on refashioned boundaries 9 Moral agendas for psychoanalytic practice with children and families 10 With justice in mind: complexity, child welfare and the law 11 What is good and bad sex for children? 12 Identity, religious fundamentalism and children’s welfare 13 Failing children: responding to young people with ‘behavioural difficulties’