Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her
important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to …

Objective The study applies an adapted Family Stress Model (FSM) to analyze the
relationship between child material deprivation and intra‐family conflict about money using …

Qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) has grown in prominence and popularity since the
2007 themed section on the subject in this journal. This new themed section reflects on how …

This study investigates the relationship between multidimensional household poverty and
cognitive and behavioural development during the formative years of childhood (from 9 …

Poverty is known to be associated with poorer child mental wellbeing. Relatedly, the security
and quality of employment are reported to affect adult wellbeing. Less is known about how …

This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through
technologies. It shows how states attempt to influence, shape and govern families as both …

Policy responses to COVID-19 have had dramatic impacts on children's human rights, as
much as the COVID-19 pandemic itself. In the rush to protect the human right of survival and …

The paper considers why feminists working on gender mainstreaming in the UK looked to
Sweden for models to effect structural change and why in recent years the models in …

5 food (and parents with childcare) before the start of the school day (Simpson, 2001).
Breakfast clubs also seek to improve learning outcomes through alleviating hunger for those …

All schools possess a duty of care towards their students. However, this duty of care falls
unevenly across schools, with those serving low-income communities often responding to …