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.
Parent education surfaced as a political question in Sweden in the 1960s and support for parents has since remained on the political agenda. Despite different views on the ideal relationship between the welfare state, the family and children, support for parents has been advocated by parties from all over the political spectrum. By tracing the political debate, this article addresses the question of how the notion of support for parents was adapted to different political ideas, ideologies and ways of defining the relationship between state, family and children from the 1960s until the 2000s in Sweden. We analyse the arguments that different political parties offered and the varying meanings attributed to terms like 'parent education' (föräldrautbildning) and 'parenting support' (föräldrastöd) during three different phases in the transformation of the Swedish welfare state: the final period of its expansion in the 1960s and 1970s; the economic crisis and retrenchments of welfare services in the 1990s; and the era of individual responsibility in the 2000s. Support for parents has been actualised as a solution to different social and political problems and the notions of parent education and parenting support have proven the capacity to accommodate different political ideas, ideologies and visions.
Em 1900, Ellen Dey publicou o livro O Século da Criança, que antevia uma sociedade melhor e manifestava uma esperança que o século a se iniciar seria o século da criança. A Infância, de fato, adquiriu novos sentidos nas décadas seguintes. O objetivo deste artigo é esboçar as mudanças fundamentais do papel da criança na sociedade sueca, assim como do significado de infância. Procura-se ressaltar a estreita relação entre a implantação do Estado de bem-estar social e os seus novos e diversos grupos profissionais e instituições, e o desenvolvimento de novas noções de infância. Também se enfatiza as contradições inerentes às modernas noções de infância e como a ambição de dar forma à infância e realizar ideais por meio de medidas assistenciais de natureza diversa criou uma infância diferente daquela que se pretendia. A infância romântica foi substituída por uma infância planejada e racional. During the very year of the 20th century, Ellen Key wrote the book The Century of the Child. The book presented a vision of a better society and expressed the hope that the 20 th century would be the century of the child. And childhood did indeed acquire new meanings in the decades to come. The overall aim of this paper is to outline fundamental changes in the role of children in Swedish society and the meaning of childhood. The paper points at the close relationship between the development of the welfare state and its different new professional groups and intitutions and the development new notions of childhood. The paper points at the contradictions inherent in modern notions of childhood. It also points at the how the ambitions to form childhood and realize ideals through welfare measures of different kinds created a different kind of childhood than was intended. The romantic childhood was replaced by a planned and rational childhood
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