Parents in the Spotlight: Parenting Practices and Support from a Comparative Perspective

by Tanja Betz (Editor), Michael-Sebastian Honig (Editor), Ilona Ostner (Editor)

Overview

Children and parents have become a focus of debates on ‘new social risks’ in European welfare states. Policymaking elites have converged in defining such risks, and they have outlined new forms of parenting support to better safeguard children and activate their potential. Increasingly, parents are suspected of falling short of public expectations. Contributors to this special issue scrutinize this shift towards parenting as performance and analyse recent forms of parenting support.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783847405023
Publisher:	Verlag Barbara Budrich
Publication date:	07/17/2017
Series:	Journal of Family Research/Zeitschrift für Familienforschung (ZfF) Special Issue/Sonderheft
Pages:	351
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.83(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Tanja Betz is a Member of the LOEWE Research Centre for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA) and Professor of Pedagogy with a focus on Childhood Research, Early Childhood and Primary Education, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Prof. em. Dr. Michael-Sebastian Honig is a Professor of Social Work and Member of the Research Group Early Childhood: Education and Care, University of Luxembourg. Prof. em. Dr. Ilona Ostner is a Professor of Political Sociology and Social Policy, University of Göttingen, Germany.