Children, parents and non-parents: to whom does ‘the future’ belong?

Suissa, Judith; Rosen, Rachel

doi:10.1332/204674319x15645386453149

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“…Rashford's statement is eloquent and emotive, flagging up the importance of social support for impoverished families. But it also draws on a long history of representations of childhood as ‘futurity’, where the child is constituted as fundamentally malleable, potentially redeemable, and the site for accruing human capital (Rosen and Suissa, 2020). Rather than deservingness being premised on evaluations of whether support has been earned, as it often is with adults in the sense of ‘‘What have you done, or can you do, for us?’ (van Oorschot, 2000, 38), deservingness here rests in part on a sense of deferred reciprocity or what the future adult that the child represents has to offer.…”

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The exceptions to child exceptionalism: Racialised migrant ‘deservingness’ and the UK's free school meal debates

ROSEN,

DICKSON

2024

Critical Social Policy

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Free School Meals (FSM) have been the site of renewed contestation and extensive campaigning in the last half-decade. Until recently, children in families with ‘no recourse to public funds’ because of their immigration status were excluded from accessing FSMs, despite being some of the most destitute in Britain. Through an analysis of campaign materials and interviews with advocates, we consider this dynamic policy terrain in light of the UK's ‘hostile environment’ and consider lessons for campaigners. By exploring imaginaries of childhood, poverty, and nation shaping FSM policies, we offer a warning that campaigns can end up justifying exclusions at the same time as aiming for more expansive support. How campaigns represent their causes has implications, which, in this case, is often through the exceptionalism and hyper-deservingness of childhood. We argue these representations reduce discussion to technical questions about who is ‘deserving’, thereby risking shoring up an exclusionary and hostile state.

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The exceptions to child exceptionalism: Racialised migrant ‘deservingness’ and the UK's free school meal debates

ROSEN,

DICKSON

2024

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“…People like my sister, who do not have a child, don't quite feel it maybe". The assumption that the capacity to care about children requires the position of child carer constructs a symbolic boundary that excludes non-parents in claims to and responsibility for the future (Rosen and Suissa 2020). Additionally, the catch-all parental frame does not explain the different levels of concern for children between parents; Sophia later told me that her husband, who is not a campaigner, was not particularly worried about climate change's impact on their daughter.…”

Section: Moralising the Parent Identitymentioning

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(Re)configuring moral boundaries of intergenerational justice: the UK parent-led climate movement

2021

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The interests of children in a climate-challenged future are underrepresented within UK policy-making and public discourse. Debates on intergenerational equity have centred on economic logic rather than the moral issue of harms to the next generation, or the responsibilities of today's generation. Civil movements play an important role in changing public and political thinking on this issue; however, research on intergenerational climate justice activism has so far been confined to the youth movement. This study uses an in-depth diary and interview dataset of 20 UK-based activist mothers and fathers to explore the emotional spaces of parenting and campaigning for intergenerational climate justice. Attention was paid to the role of parenthood in the framing and motivation for action, and the way that campaigning was sustained or impeded by activist parents' personal relationships. The study found that the emotional spaces of activist parenting were managed and demarcated through moral boundary work that was used to define, distinguish and legitimise a collective representation. These boundaries were relational and drawn selectively to include similar others and to form bridges with politicians; boundaries also functioned to delegitimise the role of adults without children, and to exclude and excuse younger children and older relatives from playing a part in justice activism. The paper concludes by considering how these processes might impede the movement and have implications for wider social justice.

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“…Every parent wants their child to be pious and educated (Sunarni, 2018). This desire exists because children are seen as the embodiment of the future (Rosen & Suissa, 2020)and the idea that certain members of society have more of a claim to 'the future' than others has received explicit articulation from academics, political commentators and journalists. Children are often viewed as the embodiment of 'the future', with parents positioned as having unique stakes in 'the future', particularly in comparison to non-parents.…”

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The Role of Parents in Parenting from Islamic Law Perspectives: A Study of Muslim Families in Ambang II Village

Alimashariyanto¹,

Sarib

Mokodenseho

2022

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This study aims to analyze the role of parents in the upbringing of children from the perspective of Islamic law. The focus of this study is important because children are the next generation, and the embodiment of the future, so they must be nurtured because they are vulnerable to being affected by negative things. In addition, parents have a responsibility for the growth and development of children. The qualitative descriptive method was used to analyze the data. Research data were obtained from informants through interview and documentation techniques, in addition to written sources from books and journal articles. The results showed that parents in parenting activities do not only raise children but educate, guide, and protect children from childhood to adulthood in accordance with the values, norms, and culture adopted in the family and society. The choice of democratic, authoritarian, and permissive parenting in parenting activities has implications for the formation of the socio-religious spirit of children in society in a better direction. In conclusion, the role of parents in every stage and development of children is very necessary while considering the use of appropriate parenting patterns.

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Children, parents and non-parents: to whom does ‘the future’ belong?

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

The exceptions to child exceptionalism: Racialised migrant ‘deservingness’ and the UK's free school meal debates

The exceptions to child exceptionalism: Racialised migrant ‘deservingness’ and the UK's free school meal debates

(Re)configuring moral boundaries of intergenerational justice: the UK parent-led climate movement

The Role of Parents in Parenting from Islamic Law Perspectives: A Study of Muslim Families in Ambang II Village

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