What Do We Know About the Relationship between Public Welfare and Child Welfare?

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 633-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy Billings ◽  
Terry D. Moore ◽  
Thomas P. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
The Relationship

THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-246
Author(s):  
PAUL W. BEAVEN
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Real Object ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Pediatric Education ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

"The object of the Academy shall be to foster and stimulate interest in pediatrics and correlate all aspects of the work for the welfare of children that properly come within the scope of pediatrics. The Academy shall endeavor to establish and maitain the highest possible standards for pediatric education in medical schools and hospitals, pediatric practice and research . . . to maintain the dignity and efficiency of pediatric practice in its relationship to public welfare." The above quotation gives the real object of our organization as formulated by those who wrote our Constitution. The Executive Board believes this object to be the aim to which we are pledged. Details will be described in later columns, for we are organized to carry this out. The Academy will continue to correlate all pediatric aspects of the work for the welfare of children. As a society we will seek to maintain the highest possible standards for pediatric education. We will point out the relationship of pediatric practice to public welfare. By means of strong national committees dealing with child health and by reason of the survey and its subsequent interpretation and by working with other groups interested in child welfare, we have already gone a long way in blazing a trail to that goal our founders envisioned. We have no intention of losing what has been gained nor do we intend to lose our leadership in child welfare. Rather we propose to enhance it. Our membership is composed in large measure of practitioners.

Social workers as state and citizen-agents. How social workers in a German, Dutch and Flemish public welfare organisation manage this dual responsibility in practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 146801732110097
Author(s):  
Michelle van der Tier ◽  
Koen Hermans ◽  
Marianne Potting
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
National Study ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Line Managers ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Line Manager ◽  
Cross National Study ◽  
The Relationship

Summary Professional standards state that social workers in public welfare organisations should act as state and citizen-agents. However, the literature provides little insight into how social workers navigate this dual responsibility in their daily work. To address this gap, we used Maynard-Moody and Musheno’s theory on state and citizens-agent narratives to analyse street-level practices of social workers in three local welfare organisations in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. This article explores how three specific organisational mechanisms (decision-making authority; the role of the front-line manager and the degree of specialisation) affect the ways social workers navigate both agent narratives in public welfare organisations. The data were gathered by a mixed method design of in-depth interviews and focus groups. Findings Our study shows that social workers struggle with the tensions that intrude between the state and citizen-agent narrative. We found that the extent to which both narratives are adopted by social workers is affected by a complicated interaction between the beliefs of social workers about social justice and responsiveness and the selected organisational mechanisms. Moreover, we found that critical reflection and a supportive attitude of front-line managers can help social workers to manage their double responsibility in practice. Application Our cross-national study contributes to a deeper understanding of the relationship between organisational mechanisms and the moral deliberations of social workers regarding their dual responsibility. It provides in-depth insights into the tensions and conflicts social workers in different contexts face daily on account of their dual responsibility.

Part VII Inter-linkages with Other Regimes, Ch.44 Investment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miles Kate
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Multilateral Environmental Agreements ◽  
International Investment Law ◽  
Investment Law ◽  
Environmental Protection Policies ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the relationship between international investment law and international environmental law. The contestation between the fields that emerged in the context of investor-state arbitration was blunt and initially resulted in the rules of international investment law being prioritized over the obligations of states under multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), domestic environmental protection policies and decision-making, and the host state's public welfare regulatory space. Responding to that contest, the new generation bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and free trade agreements (FTAs) reflect the desire of states to work within a more balanced version of the environment/investment nexus. It is not yet, however, at a point where it can be said to be equally balanced in the engagement of international environmental law and international investment law, and there is evidently still room for significant improvements in the way in which environmental issues are understood and interpreted by arbitrators in investor-state disputes. But the culture and context in which the environment and investment are meeting is most definitely shifting and it is hoped that the trajectory continues still further in that direction.

The Kindness of Strangers: Single Mothers and the Politics of Friendship in Interwar Cape Town

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Jackson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
The State ◽  
Welfare Work ◽  
Normative Standards ◽  
Welfare Workers ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Just as a friend is often defined as somebody we like, friendship is thought of as a social, moral, and emotional good. The aura of friendship is in its virtue. But the meaning of friendship depends on who claims it and who the person appears to be whom they describe as their friend. This essay investigates the meaning of friendship in the lives of single mothers in South Africa between the two world wars. The context is Cape Town, where single mothers classified as “white” or “European” attracted the attention of the state. In case records pertaining to the 1913 Children’s Welfare Act, the meaning of friendship was contested between magistrates, police detectives, welfare workers, and single mothers themselves. The struggle over how a case should be resolved was to a great extent a struggle over the meaning of friendship. To the authorities, “friends” were a disturbing presence in the lives of single mothers. While the image of healthy, secure, and stable colonial family units was articulated around the relationship between a mother and a child, it was underwritten by the taken-for-granted presence of a male provider. Analyzing cases where men were in various ways absent forces our emphasis away from the normative standards that guided child welfare work and into the messier social realities against which those standards were applied.

scholarly journals Suffer the Children? Divorce and Child Welfare in Postwar Britain

2020 ◽  
pp. 036319902094574
Author(s):  
Rosemary Elliot
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Parental Divorce ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Parental Marital Status ◽  
The Relationship

This article explains why a consensus emerged in the 1950s that courts should be satisfied with the arrangements made for children before parental divorce was granted. I locate this within an evolving child welfare landscape in the context of high levels of divorce in England. The issues at stake were the relationship of child welfare to parental marital status, how this should be established in individual cases, and the legitimacy and boundaries of state intervention in divorce cases. Such developments were absent in Scotland, where the Scottish judiciary believed in upholding the autonomy of parents to make their own arrangements.

The perspective of children of hoarding parents (COHP)

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-166
Author(s):  
Cecilia A. Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Early Identification ◽  
Childhood Adversity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Programme Development ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The perspective herein is based upon the lived experience of adult Children of Hoarding Parents (COHP). The weight of parental hoarding on COHP is not derived solely from the physical adversity of living within a hoarded home but also comes with the social and psychological challenges they carry into adulthood. The view of hoarding as a family disorder with lasting impact evokes research questions including the exploration of the relationship between childhood adversity and parental hoarding, and the application of attachment theory to hoarding behaviours and family relationships. These types of research studies may lead to policy adoption and programme development for early identification of and intervention within families where parental hoarding represents a threat to child welfare.

Self-Revised Opinion Leader List Construction and Influence Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 709 ◽  
pp. 642-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Jing Fu ◽  
Ting Zhang ◽  
Xiao Chang ◽  
Yu Yu Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Opinion Leader ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Influence Analysis ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

Weibo is a dominant twitter-like micro-blog media in China, which indicates the trend of social changes in recent years in China. Opinion leaders, in particular, have a marvelous power to influence the thinking of the mass to some extent. In this paper, we propose an innovative model which automatically revises the selection of opinion leader list and analyzes their influence in consideration of the amount of followers and friends and topics such as life, campus, government, public welfare and entertainment. Two-step strategy is applied to our model, namely self-revised opinion leader list construction and VSM-based influence analysis. Experimental results reveal that our model has a good performance on reflecting the analysis of the relationship between authoritative opinion leaders and the mass media.

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