Children & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Children & Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Issue Information47
Mothering, education and culture: Russian, Palestinian and Jewish middle‐class mothers in Israeli Society By DeborahGoldenLaurenErdreichSvetaRobermanLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐5323
Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness22
Education and the social mobility conundrum: An examination of the ‘psychosocial and academic trust alienation theory’ in the context of disadvantaged students in the UK secondary education19
Crafting futures with hope: Young climate activists’ imaginaries in an age of crisis and uncertainty19
Records of personal assistance applications reveal young carers: Viewed from the rights of the child17
Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence16
‘Each child must be assigned a key person’: Context and interpretation of a statutory requirement in English Early Childhood Education and Care settings15
Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse15
Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors15
Weaving Smartphones Into Mother–Infant Interaction: Digital Disruptions or Participatory Possibilities?14
The legal, policy, institutional and programmatic context for protecting children against online sexual exploitation in Tunisia14
Free school meals for all poor children in Europe: An important and affordable target?14
Professional love and diversity in foster care13
Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights12
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability12
Issue Information12
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts12
Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto11
Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia11
‘Why blame the girls’?: Contextual factors enabling juvenile prostitution in a Ghanaian metropolis11
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual11
Towards more active parenting: Trends in parental mediation of children’s internet use in European countries10
Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–202010
‘The Pandemic Affected My Life in a Negative Way’: The Experiences of Estonian Children in Child Protective Services During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic10
The impact ofCOVID‐19 lockdown on children's and adolescents' mental health in Greece10
‘I Want to Learn and Speak Hoche, Rather I Am Becoming Han’: Amplifying Minoritized Indigenous Children's Voices Through a Multilingual Curriculum in an Indigenous School10
“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan9
9
What can I do for my community? Contributing to the promotion of civic engagement through participatory methodologies: The case of young people from border regions of mainland Portugal9
“I always think about tomorrow what I'll eat” an exploration of the experiences of adolescents in poor urban contexts in Accra, Ghana9
The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life9
Criminal responsibility of older children: The failings of doli incapax in Australia9
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance: Remote delivery of interventions during Covid‐199
Supporting living together: Group work on animal rights for children8
The transformative potential of LGBTQ+ Children's picture books By JenniferMiller. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, ISBN 9781496840004. 270 pp., US$25 (pb)8
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool8
Questioning children's activism: What is new or old in theory and practice?8
Issue Information8
Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying8
8
Disruptions, adjustments and hopes: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on child well‐being in five Majority World Countries8
The non‐protesting children in the 2018 Parkland school shooting protests and their freedom not to express views in child participation spaces7
Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action7
Re‐thinking youth work as initial mental health support for young people7
Seeing disability in children's made for television programmes: An Australian case study7
The gift of language: An anthropological approach to child language brokering in Barcelona7
Toxic stress in children and youth: Exploring the role of community‐based programming to support health and well‐being in the United States7
Ending racial disproportionality in child welfare: A systematic review7
The assessment of cliques in bound child and adolescent groups: A systematic scoping review6
The Impact of Family Bonding Activity Type and Time on Young Children's Social–Emotional Development6
Agency in everyday life: An ethnography of the moral experiences of children and youth6
Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown6
Coming of age in a pandemic era: The interdependence of life spheres through the lens of social integration of care leavers in Quebec during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Co‐Designing a Children's Transition Charter for the Transition to School: Opening Participatory Spaces to Hear Children's Voices6
Poverty for lunch: A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE6
Children and Violence: Agency, Experience and Representation in and Beyond Armed Conflict. By Christelle MolimaBameka, Jastine C.Barrett, MohamedKamara, KarlHanson, and Mark A.Drumbl (eds.), Abingdon,6
The lived realities of left‐behind children in Mainland China: Life and values education in the home and at school6
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit6
Artificial intelligence for children: UNICEF's policy guidance and beyond6
Towards inclusive urban environments for infants and toddlers: Assessing four urban neighbourhoods in Istanbul with mothers6
‘..It takes a lot of brain space’: Understanding young carers’ lives in England and the implications for policy and practice to reduce inappropriate and excessive care work6
Bullying in Spanish high schools: Intersection of gender and immigrant background6
The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the UK6
Feminist reflections on childhood: A history and call to action By Penny A.Weiss. Temple University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781439918685, 293 pp.6
Rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability in the primary classroom6
The girl in the text By AnnSmith (ed), New York: Berghahn Books, 2019, 9781789203233; 250 pp; (hb)5
5
An Inclusive Approach to Gardening in Children's Settings: An Observational Study5
“People as normal as possible”. Analysis of the construction of subjects in materials for the prevention of gender violence among teenagers in Spain5
Child identity‐based activism in Brazil: Wearing Afro‐style hair to contest discrimination, racism and oppression5
Children and young people's access to food, education, play and leisure in times of crisis: An international, integrative review of policy responses, impacts and adaptations during the COVID5
Between advocacy and commodification on Instagram: A case study of sharenting a child with disabilities5
5
Issue Information5
Children's Digital Rights to Accessible and Reliable Public Sector Communication5
Disputing discipline: Child protection, punishment and piety in Zanzibar schools. By FranziskaFay, Rutgers University Press, 2021. US$ 38.95, US$ 150 (cloth). ISBN 9781978821736 (paperback); 9781978825
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey5
Youth participation: Adultism, human rights and professional youth work5
The ban on corporal punishment in a senior high school in Ghana: The perspicacity of teachers at Northern School of Business5
‘How Does Living in Institution Impact Young Lives?’—Insights From Young People in Ci'aiyuan5
Issue Information5
‘They are always in the top of our mind’: Designated Teachers' views on supporting care experienced children in England5
Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges: A focus group study5
Gendering innocence: An empirical inquiry into the lived experience of gender incongruence in childhood5
Considering the moral implications of psychiatric diagnosis for children5
Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency5
Healthy masculinity construction: The influence of race, faith and athletics5
4
Issue Information4
A democratic learning process: When young children under 12 years of age in child welfare services express their wishes for participation4
Children's Homes: Building or Threatening the Resilience and Rights of Black Orphans and Vulnerable Children4
Research handbook on child soldiersByMark A.DrumblJastine C.Barrett (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019. ISBN 9781789903324, 542 pp., £45 (pb)4
A new materialist (re)configuring of sexuality, age and the discourse of ‘childhood innocence’4
Doing Being Orten: Managing Commonplace Super‐Diversity in Swedish School‐Age Educare4
Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives4
Assessing Child Maltreatment and Its Relationships With Personality, Resilience and Attachment in Adulthood4
4
No Hiding Places—A Review of Representations of Children's Right to Play in Schoolyards Across Wider Irish Educational Policies and Guidelines4
Young children's perceptions and experiences of school readiness during the transition from preschool to primary school in China4
Children's lives in an era of school closures: Exploring the implications of COVID‐19 for child labour in Ghana4
Educating tomorrow: Learning for the post‐pandemic world By ChrisBrownRuthLuzmoreBingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Ltd, 2021. ISBN 978‐1‐80043‐663‐3; 200 pages; £16.99 (pb)4
4
Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China4
Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research4
Child sexual abuse in Ghana: A multi‐methods exploratory study4
A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil4
Tracing emotional experiences and the well‐being during the pandemic through drawings by Spanish children4
Cultural heterogeneity, family dysfunction and inadequate school support: Ethnic disparities in bullying victimization within China's multiethnic regions4
Free time, gender and the pandemic: An exploration of children's daily routines in the times of COVID‐19 in Chile4
Issue Information4
Youth participation processes in longitudinal out of home care research4
Youth provisioning in low‐income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment4
‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes4
Breaking the silence on special needs children in foster care: The diversity of children in foster care, carers and processes4
China's left‐behind children: Caretaking, parenting, and struggles By XiaojinChen, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press . 2024. pp. 218 (hardcover). ISBN: 97819788371573
Ethics committees and shaping of children's participation in qualitative educational research in Chile3
How parenting pre‐teens compares to other child stages: Identifying opportunities to enhance adolescent mental health and wellbeing3
Preschool children's dispositions of collaboration: A Chinese study3
Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study3
‘She Tells Me I Am a Strong Person’: Romanian and Polish Young Migrants' Talk About Significant Adults in the School Settings in Sweden3
Transracial adoption practice in South Africa: The Western Cape as a case study3
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Childhoods and South‐South Migration3
3
Envisioning action‐oriented and justice‐driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists3
Homeless youth‐led activism and direct action: Lessons from a participatory research project in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal3
Finding methods for the inclusion of all children: Advancing participatory research with children with disabilities3
3
Law's drawing line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan3
Embodying children’s rights in Italy and Spain: Unmasking some elements of the cultural politics of childhood3
I don't know what is autism, what is normal teenage behaviour, and what is naughtiness’: Conceptualising child and adolescent to parent violence in the context of neurodevelopmental difference3
A comprehensive policy review of evidence‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations3
Students' Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Finland3
Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system3
Predictors of out‐group empathy among majority and minority children in a conflict‐affected society3
3
‘Am I that bad?’: Middle‐class moralism and weight stigma towards parents of children with higher weight3
Emotions and involvement of foster carers preparing to welcome children arriving from war zones3
‘What if someone had told me that as a kid?’: Professionals' perspectives on their personal experiences of family‐related childhood adversity and their supportive practice3
Play across childhood: International perspectives on diverse contexts of play By PeteKing, ShellyNewstead (Ed.): Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. pp. 244. £109.99. Hardcover ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐72 4603
Children as ‘becomings’—Mapping parental adultcentrism in Hungary3
Mixed methods Participatory Action Research to inform service design based on the Capabilities Approach, in the North of England3
“My belly tickles! And my vulva too!”: Children's conversations about pleasure in Catalonia (Spain)3
Evaluation of route choice for walking commutes to school and street space optimization in old urban areas of China based on a child‐friendly orientation: The case of the Wuyi Park area in Zhengzhou3
Teens and Brexit in Northern Ireland: Merging rights with responsibilities3
A Policy‐Driven Scoping Review of the Regulatory and Operational Framework Addressing Obesity in Children in Need in Greece3
Remembrance and ritual in English schools3
Young adult migrants' social experiences in Sweden: ‘Melting pot’ and ‘salad bowl’ perspectives on social integration3
Autism and education—The role of Europeanisation in South‐Eastern Europe: Policy mapping in Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia3
A gender‐based violence prevention programme—Young people's participation and activism in Scotland2
Children and Society Policy Review—A review of government consultation processes when engaging with children and young people about the statutory guidance for Relationships and Sex Education in school2
Child as method and/as childism: Conceptual–political intersections and tensions2
‘Childhood in the shadow of prison bars’: How school counselors cope while counseling children of incarcerated parents2
Rethinking child and youth activism in challenging times2
Issue Information2
Issue Information2
Disability and homeschooling: Parents experiences in Kazakhstan2
‘Crossed the line’: Sexuality discourses of motherhood under 15 years in Uganda2
How do childhood and children's rights mean what they mean? Innovating the debate around the social semantics of childhood and children's rights through an interdisciplinary approach2
‘Stranger danger’, ‘abduction risks’ and ‘fear’: Media coverage of children's independent mobility and parental attitudes2
‘It’s like we’re locked in a box’: Girls’ and mothers’ experiences of the police and legal system following child sexual abuse2
Becoming a ‘good parent’: Social class and talk labour among South Korean parents2
Life‐history research with children: Extending and enriching the approach2
2
The future of children's care By ChristianJerr, RobinSen (Eds.), Bristol University Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐6828‐7 (paperback)2
The Rights of Very Young Children in the Digital Environment of the Family Home: Findings From a UK Survey of Children 0–36 Months and Their Parents2
Where are we in the recognition of young adult carers in France?2
Children's agency within digital play and learning: Exploring the impact of shared play experiences on parent–child negotiations2
How photos can affect children's perception of animal welfare: A study involving pupils from Portugal and Spain2
Does gender influence children's and young people's caring? A qualitative, systematic review and meta‐ethnography2
Character strengths as a link between family psychosocial environment and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents2
Cultivating child and youth decision‐making: The principles and practices of the ReSPECT approach to professional development2
Rebels in their own job: How digging into a municipal mystery turned invited youth participation in an urban planning process into uninvited activism2
How Do 9–10‐Year‐Olds Conceptualise, Engage in, and Navigate Banter Within Primary Education? A Figurational Analysis2
The Homeschool Choice: Parents and the Privatization of EducationKate HenleyAverettNew York: New York University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781479891610, 257pp., $30.00 (pb)2
Dilemma of family education for hearing‐impaired children in China: Responsibility or evasion?2
Children's services and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Italy: A study with educators and parents2
Re‐imaging everyday routines and educational aspirations under COVID‐19 lockdown: Narratives of urban middle‐class children in Punjab, India2
Critical perspectives on research with children: reflexivity, methodology, and researcher identity By SarahRichards, SarahCoombs, Bristol University Press. 2023. pp. 192. ISBN: 978–1–5292‐12
Narratives of child sexual abuse—Conceptualizing relational complexities2
Nomadic boat‐dwelling children of Southeast Asia: Discourses on the Sama‐Bajau children and implications on decentring child migration studies2
Gamification and family leisure to alleviate the psychological impact of confinement due to COVID‐192
Education of Afghan refugee children in Iran: A structured review of policies2
Children’s voices from the past: New historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. By Kristine MoruziNell  Musgrove and Carla  Pascoe Leahy (Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 ISBN 978‐3‐030‐11895‐2, XI2
Growing up with disabled parents who use personal assistance (PA support): children's views and experiences2
Children's participation in everyday life: An international overview2
The relationship between maternal sensitivity and play during early childhood with the development of cognitive skills and socio‐emotional competencies: Longitudinal evidence from Peru2
The context‐bound phenomenon of decision‐making on referrals: A scoping review2
Moving beyond narrative archetypes among children with cancer2
Childist theory in the humanities and social sciences2
Children's agencies navigating sexism and LGBTI+ phobia in Santiago de Chile's primary school2
Girls, sexuality and playground‐assemblages in a South African primary school2
Area‐deprivation, social care spending and the rates of children in care proceedings in local authorities in England2
Childhood and youth in India: Engagements with modernity By AnandiniDar, DivyaKannan (Eds.), Cham, Switzerland AG: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. pp. 295, $159.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐31 2
Using cinema voice to promote positive intimate relationships among European youth: The Lights4Violence Project2
Role conflicts of preschool teachers: From children's perspectives in a changing cultural setting in Taiwan2
To Share or Not to Share: Adolescents' Experience With Sharenting2
Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach2
Telepresence robotic technology support for social connectedness during treatment of children with cancer2
Mapping Sustainable Development Goals for Children in India: Progress and Present ChallengesBy SwatiDutta and Khanindra Ch.Das, Singapore: Springer, 2024. 210 pp. £96.29 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐981‐99‐89012
Pakistani children's lived experiences of relationships in the context of child protection services in Norway: An interpretative phenomenological analysis2
Containing childhood By DanielleRussell (Ed.), Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2022. pp. 240, $99 (hb). ISBN: 97814968411792
In need of what? Section 17 Provision under the Children Act 19892
Parental mediation in the age of mobile technology2
The need to belong: Girls' trajectory perspectives on friendship forming in the school setting1
Young People's Experiences of Out‐of‐Home Care as Conveyed by Video Vlogs1
The Sociology of Children's Rights. By BrianGran. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. ISBN: 978‐1‐509‐52784‐7, 259 pp. $64.95 (hb)1
‘You cut off a part of your body to feed your family’ Parental perspectives on parent–child separation in the context of child domestic work: A qualitative study from Karnataka, India1
Attitudes of Israeli Early Childhood Educators Who Work in Kibbutz, Rural Villages and Cities Towards Their Community and Its Significance for Children1
Young People's Experiences of Citizenship in Relation to Place: A Case Study of Three Rural Communities in Germany1
Learning in and beyond the classroom: Communities of practice in education support for separated children1
Does the early childhood education and care in India contribute to children's skill development?1
1
A content analysis of South Korean newspaper coverage of adolescent cyberbullying1
Screens and Preschool Children: A Qualitative Exploration of Parental Experiences1
What are Aboriginal children and young people in out‐of‐home care telling us? A review of the child voice literature to understanding perspectives and experiences of the statutory care system1
Post‐socialist geopolitical uncertainties: Researching memories of childhood with ‘child as method’1
A child‐centred asylum policy: Building on evidence and unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children's views1
The COVID‐School and Social Responsibility: Creative Expressions of Children's Rights and Agency in Iceland During the Pandemic1
Community coherence, collective efficacy and civic engagement in student and youth councils: The mediating effect of community resilience1
The importance of emotions in the lives of children and young people in foster care in England, France and Germany1
Unpacking the discourses of stunting in Indonesian early childhood education and parenting1
Alcohol and tobacco use in Portuguese adolescents: The relationship with social factors, future expectations, physical and psychological symptoms1
Navigating the rights of intersex children in Zimbabwe1
Too Much of a Good Thing? Challenges to the Effectiveness of Digital Help Resources for Children and Youths1
Debt Bondage, Juju Rituals and Street Thuggery: Instruments of Manipulation in the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Young Nigerian Women in Northern Ghana1
Issue Information1
Children's grief maps—Capturing children's grief and sorrow in family and close relationships1
1
The role of foster carers in England and Portugal: Is it solely a parenting role?1
Children's personal lives in the family: Achieving relational agency and individual privacy in intrafamilial relationships in Türkiye1
Child well‐being in early childhood education and care during COVID‐19: Child sensitivity in small, fixed groups1
Mental Wellbeing Needs and Support for Care‐Experienced Children and Young People in Secondary School and During the Transition to Further Education College1
Relational Mobility of Street‐Connected Youth in Urban Northeast Brazil1
A magna carta for children? Rethinking children's rights1
Childhood and children's migration in the era of COVID‐19: A case study of Zimbabwean children/young people's migration to South Africa1
Issue Information1
Children's Covid‐19 writing and drawings and the existential imperative to educate for uncertainty1
The association between family routines and parents' different working hour schedules1
Review of the international play policies and their contribution to supporting a child's right to play1
‘I'd Probably Scroll by’: An Exploration of Young People's Views on Spotting and Stopping Misinformation1
The post‐war generation remembers: A mixed‐method study exploring children’s attitudes towards World War II commemoration1
Issue Information1
Adolescent trajectories in situations of adversity: A mixed‐method approach to understanding educational and leadership outcomes1
Between Protection and Participation: Informed Consent, Ethics and Play in Research With Children and Youth1
Interlocked: The ethics of care and the ethics of justice in children's discourses on the parent–child relationship in Chile1
‘It can be an abuse, even though both have consented’: Swedish preschool practitioners' discussions about teaching (sexual) consent to preschoolers1
Children's social representations of utopian societies1
Facilitation of adolescents' agency and hybrid integration1
Operationalising children's participation: Competing understandings of the policy to practice ‘gap’1
0.067302942276001