Children & Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Children & Society is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness24
Records of personal assistance applications reveal young carers: Viewed from the rights of the child24
Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence21
‘Each child must be assigned a key person’: Context and interpretation of a statutory requirement in English Early Childhood Education and Care settings20
Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors19
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 education18
Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse18
Weaving Smartphones Into Mother–Infant Interaction: Digital Disruptions or Participatory Possibilities?17
Crafting futures with hope: Young climate activists’ imaginaries in an age of crisis and uncertainty16
Free school meals for all poor children in Europe: An important and affordable target?16
Professional love and diversity in foster care15
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual15
The legal, policy, institutional and programmatic context for protecting children against online sexual exploitation in Tunisia15
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Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights14
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts13
‘Why blame the girls’?: Contextual factors enabling juvenile prostitution in a Ghanaian metropolis13
Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto13
Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia12
The impact ofCOVID‐19 lockdown on children's and adolescents' mental health in Greece11
‘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 School11
‘The Pandemic Affected My Life in a Negative Way’: The Experiences of Estonian Children in Child Protective Services During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic11
Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–202011
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability11
Towards more active parenting: Trends in parental mediation of children’s internet use in European countries11
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 Portugal10
Disruptions, adjustments and hopes: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on child well‐being in five Majority World Countries10
Criminal responsibility of older children: The failings of doli incapax in Australia10
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“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan10
The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life9
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance: Remote delivery of interventions during Covid‐199
Throw Your Voice: Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani ChildhoodsBy MeghanneBarker, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2024. 234 pp. US$ 32.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐177648‐99
The Importance of Relationship in Independent Advocacy for Care‐Experienced Young People9
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool8
What About Their Future? An Analysis of Child Protection Systems' Focus on the Future of Newborn Children in Care Order Decisions8
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Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying8
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“I always think about tomorrow what I'll eat” an exploration of the experiences of adolescents in poor urban contexts in Accra, Ghana8
Re‐thinking youth work as initial mental health support for young people8
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
The non‐protesting children in the 2018 Parkland school shooting protests and their freedom not to express views in child participation spaces7
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 pandemic7
Questioning children's activism: What is new or old in theory and practice?7
Artificial intelligence for children: UNICEF's policy guidance and beyond7
Seeing disability in children's made for television programmes: An Australian case study7
Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action7
Feminist reflections on childhood: A history and call to action By Penny A.Weiss. Temple University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781439918685, 293 pp.7
Supporting living together: Group work on animal rights for children7
Ending racial disproportionality in child welfare: A systematic review7
The gift of language: An anthropological approach to child language brokering in Barcelona7
The Impact of Family Bonding Activity Type and Time on Young Children's Social–Emotional Development7
Bullying in Spanish high schools: Intersection of gender and immigrant background6
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit6
Co‐Designing a Children's Transition Charter for the Transition to School: Opening Participatory Spaces to Hear Children's Voices6
Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges: A focus group study6
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An Inclusive Approach to Gardening in Children's Settings: An Observational Study6
Governance, Migration and Educational Rights: A Policy Analysis of Migrant Children's Educational Access in Sichuan, China6
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 assessment of cliques in bound child and adolescent groups: A systematic scoping review6
The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the UK6
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Children's Digital Rights to Accessible and Reliable Public Sector Communication6
Considering the moral implications of psychiatric diagnosis for children6
Towards inclusive urban environments for infants and toddlers: Assessing four urban neighbourhoods in Istanbul with mothers6
Rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability in the primary classroom6
The lived realities of left‐behind children in Mainland China: Life and values education in the home and at school6
Agency in everyday life: An ethnography of the moral experiences of children and youth6
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‘They are always in the top of our mind’: Designated Teachers' views on supporting care experienced children in England6
‘How Does Living in Institution Impact Young Lives?’—Insights From Young People in Ci'aiyuan6
Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown6
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
Research handbook on child soldiersByMark A.DrumblJastine C.Barrett (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019. ISBN 9781789903324, 542 pp., £45 (pb)5
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A democratic learning process: When young children under 12 years of age in child welfare services express their wishes for participation5
Gendering innocence: An empirical inquiry into the lived experience of gender incongruence in childhood5
A new materialist (re)configuring of sexuality, age and the discourse of ‘childhood innocence’5
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey5
Between advocacy and commodification on Instagram: A case study of sharenting a child with disabilities5
The ban on corporal punishment in a senior high school in Ghana: The perspicacity of teachers at Northern School of Business5
Free time, gender and the pandemic: An exploration of children's daily routines in the times of COVID‐19 in Chile5
Youth provisioning in low‐income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment5
Cultural heterogeneity, family dysfunction and inadequate school support: Ethnic disparities in bullying victimization within China's multiethnic regions5
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
Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency5
“People as normal as possible”. Analysis of the construction of subjects in materials for the prevention of gender violence among teenagers in Spain5
Healthy masculinity construction: The influence of race, faith and athletics5
No Hiding Places—A Review of Representations of Children's Right to Play in Schoolyards Across Wider Irish Educational Policies and Guidelines5
Children's lives in an era of school closures: Exploring the implications of COVID‐19 for child labour in Ghana5
Youth participation: Adultism, human rights and professional youth work5
Children's Homes: Building or Threatening the Resilience and Rights of Black Orphans and Vulnerable Children5
Child identity‐based activism in Brazil: Wearing Afro‐style hair to contest discrimination, racism and oppression5
Child sexual abuse in Ghana: A multi‐methods exploratory study4
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Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research4
Youth participation processes in longitudinal out of home care research4
Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system4
“My belly tickles! And my vulva too!”: Children's conversations about pleasure in Catalonia (Spain)4
Teens and Brexit in Northern Ireland: Merging rights with responsibilities4
Breaking the silence on special needs children in foster care: The diversity of children in foster care, carers and processes4
Parental Understandings of ‘Stranger Danger’: Balancing Fear of Victimisation by Strangers Against Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Children4
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Tracing emotional experiences and the well‐being during the pandemic through drawings by Spanish children4
Doing Being Orten: Managing Commonplace Super‐Diversity in Swedish School‐Age Educare4
A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil4
‘She Tells Me I Am a Strong Person’: Romanian and Polish Young Migrants' Talk About Significant Adults in the School Settings in Sweden4
Transracial adoption practice in South Africa: The Western Cape as a case study4
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Childhoods and South‐South Migration4
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Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives4
‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes4
Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China4
Young children's perceptions and experiences of school readiness during the transition from preschool to primary school in China4
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A Policy‐Driven Scoping Review of the Regulatory and Operational Framework Addressing Obesity in Children in Need in Greece4
Remembrance and ritual in English schools4
Students' Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Finland4
Assessing Child Maltreatment and Its Relationships With Personality, Resilience and Attachment in Adulthood4
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
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
Children's services and the COVID‐19 pandemic in Italy: A study with educators and parents3
Girls, sexuality and playground‐assemblages in a South African primary school3
Disability and homeschooling: Parents experiences in Kazakhstan3
Envisioning action‐oriented and justice‐driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists3
Area‐deprivation, social care spending and the rates of children in care proceedings in local authorities in England3
In need of what? Section 17 Provision under the Children Act 19893
China's left‐behind children: Caretaking, parenting, and struggles By XiaojinChen, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press . 2024. pp. 218 (hardcover). ISBN: 97819788371573
Editorial: Sexuality Through Children's Eyes: Experiences, Perceptions and Meanings3
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A gender‐based violence prevention programme—Young people's participation and activism in Scotland3
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
Predictors of out‐group empathy among majority and minority children in a conflict‐affected society3
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
Law's drawing line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan3
Finding methods for the inclusion of all children: Advancing participatory research with children with disabilities3
Nomadic boat‐dwelling children of Southeast Asia: Discourses on the Sama‐Bajau children and implications on decentring child migration studies3
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Preschool children's dispositions of collaboration: A Chinese study3
How Do 9–10‐Year‐Olds Conceptualise, Engage in, and Navigate Banter Within Primary Education? A Figurational Analysis3
Children's participation in everyday life: An international overview3
Homeless youth‐led activism and direct action: Lessons from a participatory research project in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal3
Critical perspectives on research with children: reflexivity, methodology, and researcher identity By SarahRichards, SarahCoombs, Bristol University Press. 2023. pp. 192. ISBN: 978–1–5292‐13
To Share or Not to Share: Adolescents' Experience With Sharenting3
Telepresence robotic technology support for social connectedness during treatment of children with cancer3
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
Children as ‘becomings’—Mapping parental adultcentrism in Hungary3
A comprehensive policy review of evidence‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations3
Autism and education—The role of Europeanisation in South‐Eastern Europe: Policy mapping in Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia3
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 approach3
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Pakistani children's lived experiences of relationships in the context of child protection services in Norway: An interpretative phenomenological analysis3
Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study3
How photos can affect children's perception of animal welfare: A study involving pupils from Portugal and Spain3
Where are we in the recognition of young adult carers in France?3
Life‐history research with children: Extending and enriching the approach3
The Homeschool Choice: Parents and the Privatization of EducationKate HenleyAverettNew York: New York University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781479891610, 257pp., $30.00 (pb)3
The Becoming of Children and Caregiving Fathers—A Video Ethnography of Individual Parent Conversations at Swedish Child Health Centres3
‘Am I that bad?’: Middle‐class moralism and weight stigma towards parents of children with higher weight3
Young adult migrants' social experiences in Sweden: ‘Melting pot’ and ‘salad bowl’ perspectives on social integration3
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