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Young people today: news media, policy and youth justice
The new sociology of childhood sees children as competent social agents with important contributions to make. And yet the phase of childhood is fraught with tensions and contradictions. Public policies are required, not only to protect children, but also to control them and regulate their behaviour. For children and young people in the UK, youth justice has become increasingly punitive. At the same time, social policies have focused more on children's inclusion and participation. In this interplay of conflict and contradictions, the role the media play is critical in contributing to the moral panic about childhood and youth. In this article, we consider media representations of âantisocialâ children and young people and how this belies a moral response to the nature of contemporary childhood. We conclude by considering how a rights-based approach might help redress the moralised politics of childhood representations in the media
âDuped Fathersâ, âCuckoo Childrenâ, and the Problem of Basing Fatherhood on Biology: A Philosophical Analysis
Who is a childâs father? Is it the man who raised her, or the one whose genes she carriesâor both? We look at the view that men who have raised children they falsely believed to be âtheir ownâ have been victims of a form of fraud or are âfalse fathersâ. We consider the question of who has been harmed in such cases, and in what the harm consists. We use conceptual analysis, a philosophical method of investigating the use of a concept and the logical implications of its various interpretations. We devise and discuss a number of possible scenarios in which a couple (arguably) become the parents of a child. We use these scenarios to illustrate the tenuousness of the claim that we can simply rely on biology to clarify parent-child relationships. We also discuss some of the underpinnings and implications of the language in which the debate on âpaternity fraudâ has been framed: âdupedâ or âfalseâ fathers and âcuckoo childrenâ
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