Ethics and the Endangerment of Children's Bodies

Abstract

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Ethics and the Dynamic Vulnerability of Children

“…Finally, the protection of the family also contributes to the intergenerational transmission of inequalities (Archard 2010;Schweiger and Graf 2015). Against these reservations, we still believe that a defense of parental privileges and family autonomy is possible and is the best available option to protect and care for children (Graf and Schweiger 2017).…”

“…Many children are thus suffering "in private" and do not have opportunities to seek help. Or, especially with young children, they do not even realize what is happening to them and that they do have a right to be protected (Graf and Schweiger 2017). On the other hand, children's developing autonomy and agency are highly dependent on their caregivers, who are in an extremely powerful position to be able to indoctrinate their children and to limit their identity resources (Macleod 2017).…”

Nowhere Home: The Waiting of Vulnerable Child Refugees

“…their parents) to learning how to become increasingly mature and independent. Hence, children and their childhoods are 'never on hold', since 'developmental needs do not wait for an emergency phase of a refugee situation to end' (Sourander 1998, my italics; see Graf and Schweiger 2017;Schweiger and Graf 2017). Still, traumas before, during and/or after they flee can 'harm children's physical, intellectual, psychological, cultural and social development' (Sourander 1998), which is due to disruption, uprooting and insecurity of forced displacement and prolonged waiting.…”

Global justice and childhood: introduction

“…In such an actor-centred view of global justice, children usually only become visible as passive objects and in the roles of victims of injustice, who are perceived to be part of the respective society without being able to really shape or change it. Children are to be protected and helped, but it is widely held that they cannot protect and help themselves (Graf and Schweiger 2017). This view of children as passive objects and not active subjects can be criticized.…”