CHILDREN OF THE JAPANESE STATE by Roger Goodman ( 9780198234227 )

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Title:

CHILDREN OF THE JAPANESE STATE
THE CHANGING ROLE OF CHILD PROTECTION INSTITUTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN

By:

Roger Goodman

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0198234228

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 September, 2000

Pages:

264

Description:

This book examines what happens to children in contemporary Japan when they come into the care of the state. It explores Japanese ideas of adoption, fostering, child abuse, and child protection, and provides the first full account in English of the development and delivery of child welfare in the world's second largest economy.

Synopsis:

In Japan today over 30,000 children are in the care of the state because their parents or guardians cannot, will not, or are not considered competent to look after them. Drawing on his long-term fieldwork in an institution for such children, Roger Goodman describes what happens to them in a country that has no professional social workers and little tradition of adopting or fostering children in need of care, and explains how, in the 1990s, the convergence of several factors in particular Japan's rapidly declining birth-rate, its signing of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and its 'discovery' of child abuse led to a new role for child protection institutions which had otherwise scarcely changed over the past 50 years. In the process, he provides the first full account in English of the development and delivery of child welfare in the world's second largest economy.

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