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Abstract by the authors: This article offers the first quantitative analysis of European Union external strategies for children’s rights. Drawing on original data, it finds that European Union diplomatic pressure and economic aid have increased over time but that the European Union still lacks independent policy positions on children’s rights. European Union strategies target states to different degrees and international non-governmental organizations are favoured over domestic organizations. Findings suggest that the European Union is becoming a more significant actor of child rights governance, underscoring the value of a comparative approach.

Abstract by the authors: La guerre n’est pas un jeu, mais des milliers d’enfants la font. Ils appartiennent à des institutions militaires, à des groupes armés, à des gangs mafieux et à des organisations terroristes. Volontaires parfois, recrutés de force le plus souvent, ils constituent un défi tant tactique que stratégique que doivent relever les forces de sécurité.

Abstract by the authors: The paper considers a household family comprising of husband, wife and their child. Each parent consumes a private good and contributes voluntarily for a household public good which is child’s welfare. When divorce occurs, the court has an ex ante transfer mechanism for the parents such that truthful revelation of valuation of child’s welfare by each parent becomes strategyproof. Based on this, the sole custody of child is assigned to the parent having the highest value. We find that the transfer mechanism of the court fails to satisfy ex post individual rationality of some types of the parents. We also show that the court’s mechanism bundled with an appropriate child support order achieves higher child’s welfare and satisfies individual rationality only if the non-custodial parent is extremely altruistic in nature. Thus the paper successfully explains widespread prevalence of non-payment of child support from a perspective which was not discussed previously. More significantly, the paper ends with a policy prescription of replacing the conventional child support system by an equivalent amount of transfer from the government to the custodial parent, and shows that it has the potential to correct the intrinsic loopholes of child support.

Abstract by the authors: Children’s post-divorce living arrangements have become increasingly heterogeneous the past decades, because of the rise in shared residence and stepfamily formation. This study investigates how post-divorce living arrangements (i.e. the combination between residential arrangement and stepparent presence) are related to children’s school engagement. The focus is put on different explanations of the relation between living arrangements and school engagement, namely financial resources, parent–child relationship, selectivity and stress. Structural equation models are performed on a sample of children with divorced parents from the Leuven Adolescent and Family Study data 2008–2011 (n = 1630). First, the results show that stepfamilies have higher financial resources than single-parent families, but these higher financial resources are not directly related to children’s school engagement. Second, parent–child relationship is an important mediator between post-divorce living arrangements and school engagement. The results suggest that shared residence is related to a better fatherchild relationship and in this manner improves school engagement. The relation between stepparent presence and the parent–child relationship is less straightforward, and the findings suggest that the combination of residential arrangement, stepfather and stepmother presence should be taken into account. Third, children’s sociodemographic characteristics, time since divorce and level of pre-divorce conflict function as selection mechanisms, as they are related to both post-divorce living arrangements and children’s school engagement. Finally, the findings indicate that the complexity of multiple part-time residential figures is stressful to children. This may partially counterbalance the benefits of such systems, via the better parent–child relationship and the higher financial resources.

Abstract by the authors: The main objective of this study was to explore the contextual determinants of child health policies

Abstract by the authors: This article analyses four different contexts in Sweden where children’s rights have been mobilised to govern vulnerabilised migrant childhoods. The concept of ‘vulnerabilisation’ is suggested to capture the political processes creating the conditions for defining and attributing vulnerability. To enable children’s rights to be a productive tool for challenging the repressive governing of migrant families and children, the article argues for the need of a problematisation and contextualisation of both the children’s rights paradigm and the vulnerabilisation of migrant childhoods.

Abstract by the authors: In this special issue, we explore child rights governance as the intersection between the study of governance and the study of children, childhood, and children’s rights. Our introduction puts forward a set of theoretical points of departure for the study of child rights governance, engaging with scholarship on human rights, international relations, history, and governance. It links the individual contributions to this special issue with four central dimensions of child rights governance, namely: temporality, spatiality, subjectivity, and normativity.

Abstract by the authors: Le thème de la maltraitance des enfants suppose d'en cerner l'ampleur exacte. Une brève mise en perspective permet de mesurer à quel point ce phénomène traverse la société entière. Il touche à la fois la société et les familles, l'action politique au niveau local ou national et, plus largement, l'imaginaire collectif. Au siècle dernier son éclosion dans l'espace public révèle la violence dans la famille et remet en cause la puissance paternelle par les lois républicaines (Denis Salas). La maltraitance infantile est aujourd'hui à la fois un problème de santé publique qui met en jeu un grand nombre d'intervenants mais aussi affaire de perception collective (Anne Tursz). Elle affecte les professionnels dès lors que les intervenants qui suivent ces familles ne peuvent pas s'abstraire soit d'une sous-évaluation, soit d'une sur-évaluation malgré les analyses pluridisciplinaires. (Caroline Eliacheff). Tant il est vrai qu'il est difficile de penser la famille comme la matrice d'une violence extrême et comme la cellule qui nous protège (ou devrait nous protéger) des accidents de la vie (Jean-Philippe Pierron).

Abstract by the authors: Cet article se propose d’interroger les paradoxes du recours à l’« origine » et à la « culture » dans les discours de professionnels de la protection de l’enfance à l’égard des jeunes d’ascendance migratoire, et par là de questionner l’actualité des dispositifs et des pratiques de catégorisation des enfants, qui ont traversé l’histoire de ce champ. En mettant en parallèle deux périodes (1970-1980 et aujourd’hui), cet article permet de montrer que se rejouent à différentes périodes les mêmes processus de construction de l’altérité, en prenant appui sur une logique de comparaison et de distinction des populations racisées, entre les primo-migrants et les enfants nés en France de familles immigrées.

Abstract by the authors: Rendre visible la question sociale des orphelins est l’objectif de ce dossier composé de plusieurs éclairages portés sur ce que vivent les enfants, adolescents et jeunes adultes orphelins dans notre société française. Mais cela n’est pas chose aisée, car l’orphelinage est un sujet délicat à traiter : de nombreuses variables sont à prendre en compte, les données démographiques sont manquantes et les chercheurs doivent considérer la discrétion que réclame cette population hétérogène que constituent « les orphelins » de père, de mère ou des deux parents.

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