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Addresses the tendency for children to be regarded as problems to be solved.

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This book examines the regulation of family relationships, in particular the issue of openness and contact.

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Provides a discussion on the role of orphanages, the primary institution for children without parents, and a stopgap measure for children needing care. This book reviews the practice of adoption, orphanage placement, and foster care since the colonial period. It provides crucial information and insight for high school and college students.

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This work will offer students and scholars in social work, child welfare, and public policy a complete overview of the systemic difficulties of the American family as well as compatible and practical programs designed to meet current family needs.

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Six original essays reflect the growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood and youth, particularly issues affecting child health and welfare.

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A collection of case studies showing different experiences from around the world that involve children in decisions regarding their own education. Concerned with how children can actively participate in decision-making, it brings together cross-cultural experiences and supporting individuals or groups to work collaboratively.

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An authoritative guide to literature for young readers concerning war in the twentieth-century - especially the two world wars. The authors discuss literature of all kinds - novels, autobiographies, comics, story-papers and picture books. In the process they provide the definitive study of the genre.

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In this book, the author presents a new vision of learning through design and production, and describes computer programming as a source of a learning and design power.

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In this book, the author presents a new vision of learning through design and production, and describes computer programming as a source of a learning and design power.

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This work shows how interviews help child survivors of the Jewish experience during World War II. The work should be of interest to Holocaust centers, researchers, oral historians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, and trauma researchers as well as survivors.

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This book is important reading for the general public, as well as for scholars and policymakers involved with children's and labor issues in the United States.

The United States has more of its children in the workforce than any other developed country.

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High-risk youth are rarely able to succeed in school, on the job, in their family relationships, or in society at large.

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Why are more young law breakers imprisoned in Russia and the UK than in any other European country This book explores the treatment of young offenders in these two very different states and the political and institutional context of their distinctively punitive approach.

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An approach for professionals helping children deal with foster care placement and adoption.

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Does social work theory and practice give adequate attention to the specific needs of children

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This collection, representing the work of scholars from a range of theoretical frameworks and disciplines, examines aspects of the preoccupation with children and childhood in Steven Spielberg's films. It includes essays on such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T...

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This collection, representing the work of scholars from a range of theoretical frameworks and disciplines, examines aspects of the preoccupation with children and childhood in Steven Spielbergs films. It includes essays on such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, and more.

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The bestselling guide for performing children and their parents, revised and updated for 2018 with new legislation and laws for performing children.

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This text examines the learning stages through which children pass in order to become fluent, independently literate readers and writers. It explains development dangers, educational confusions and pathways to success, pointing out the errors and successes in the teaching of children to read.

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Acclaimed Chilean playwright Juan Radrign's 1981 classic.

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This volume explains those needs and offers guidelines and suggestions for maximizing the educational performance of these children and helping them to meet their potential.

The volume includes research on children adopted from several countries, including Russia and former Soviet states, Romania, and China.