Listening to Children
A Childist Analysis of Children's Participation in Family Law Cases
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5933800 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Alminde (0000-0002-6830-4815, Roskilde University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 133 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci13030133 |
| OpenAlex | W4392201165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 38 |
Building on critical childhood studies and childism, this paper analyses children's participation in family law cases in Denmark. Spurred particularly by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, together with a general shift in the view on children, several jurisdictions, including Denmark, have implemented legislative reform in the last decades to accommodate children's participation rights. Even though such legal participation rights have increased, research in the family law field indicates that children's perspectives are often undermined or excluded. An analysis of qualitative data (workshops, observations, and interviews) establishes how the positioning of children and children's perspectives (as well as how "listening to children" is enacted) can be crucial to understanding the mechanisms that either subsidize or undermine children's perspectives in family law cases. The paper argues further that "listening emergent" to children can offer a path to deconstructing the norms and structures that undermine and exclude children's views-and thus offer a childist contribution to childhood research
Active listening · Childhood studies · Convention on the Rights of the Child · Developmental psychology · Family law · Human rights · Legislature · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Psychology
Child Ecologies in a Microbial World
Parental Separation
The perceived adultism scale
Children’s Wellbeing and Children’s Rights—A Nordic Perspective
The Role of Children's Voices and Feedback Mechanisms in Family Justice
Facilitating Children's Perspectives
Divorcescapes
Children of Divorced Parents—The Limitations of One‐Size‐Fits‐All Interventions
Beyond listening
Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood
Listening to Children
The Adjustment of Children with Divorced Parents
Children's Adjustment in Conflicted Marriage and Divorce
Childism and philosophy
Childist theory in the humanities and social sciences
Children’s Perspectives on Everyday Experiences of Shared Residence
Children's involvement in their parents' divorce
A Political Space for Children? The Age Order and Children’s Right to Participation
Children's Participation in Social Policy
Childhood prism research
From childhood studies to childism
Why have generational orderings been marginalised in the social sciences including childhood studies
Challenging Competency and Capacity
Children and Young People’s Participation Rights
Children's participation in family law decision-making
The Sociological Imagination
Voice’ is not enough
Children's and young people's experiences in various residential arrangements
Children as potential – a window to cultural ideals, anxieties and conflicts
Pathways to participation
Theorizing childhood
Rethinking Children's Involvement in Decision-Making after Parental Separation
The Challenge of Childhood
Reflexivity and ethical mindfulness in participatory research with children
Research with children and young people on sensitive topics - The case of poverty and delinquency
Divided Families
Future workshops as a means to democratic, inclusive and empowering research with children, young people and others
Ethical Mindfulness and Reflexivity
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
Ethics, Reflexivity, and "Ethically Important Moments" in Research
The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |