Theoretical and Empirical Insights into Child and Family Poverty

Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- Understanding Child and Family Poverty An Introduction to some key themes and issues.- Child poverty in the international context (Elizabeth Fernandez; Ioana Ramia).- Not Just Statistics: Making Children's Poverty More Visible (Peter Saunders).- Child Poverty and Child Well-Being in International Perspective (Jonathan Bradshaw).- Why are poor people always with us? (Michael Wearing; Elizabeth Fernandez).- Disadvantage, Equity and Children's Rights in 21st Century Australasia (Marie Connolly).- Children's subjective wellbeing in disadvantaged situations (Carme Montserrat; Ferran Casas; James Ferreira Moura Jr).- 7 Child Poverty in Germany: Conceptual aspects and Core Findings (Sabine Andresen, Susann Fegter, Klaus Hurrelmann, Monika Pupeter, Ulrich Schneekloth).- Poor for How Long? Chronic Versus Transient Child Poverty in the United States (Sara Kimberlin, Jill Duerr Berrick).- Child Poverty Reducation in Brazil: Reversing Bismarck? (Armando Barrientos, Amanda Telias).- Poverty and social exclusion of Children and Families in Italy and Europe: Some comparisons (Cinzia Canali; Devis Geron).- Poverty in Italy (Tiziano Vecchiato).- A Family centred approach in helping poor children in Hong Kong (Joyce, L C Ma).- Young people at Risk of Lifelong Poverty: Youth Homelessness in Australia (Patricia McNamara).- Poor Children, Poor Services, Poor Outcomes (Maria Herczog).- In what ways might poverty contribute to maltreatment? (Marian Brandon).- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in Australia: Poverty and child welfare involvement (Claire Tilbury).- Family Poverty: Reviewing the Evidence for an Integrated Community-Based Practice (Anita Lightburn, Chris Warren-Adamson).- Reducing Poverty and Investing in Children and Families (Elizabeth Fernandez, Anat Zeira, Tiziano Vecchiato, Cinzia Canali).- Contributors.