The historical development of the child welfare system in Latin America: an overview  

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Pilotti, Francisco J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research vol. 06 no. 04 (Nov. 1999), page 408-422.
Topik: children's rights; Latin America; poverty; social policy; child welfare

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: C43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Using the Convention on the Rights of the Child as a powerful advocacy too1, thee children's rights movement in Latin America has accomplished significant. advances in the promotion of children's entitlements and welfare over the last decade. Specifically, there has been a measure of success in advancing legal reforms aimed al adjusting domestic laws to the standards set forth in theConvention. However, the rec0gnition of formal entitlements in the new legislation has not been accompanied by a comparable improvement in service provision to the children of the poorer sectors of society, which constitute the vast majority of youngsters in this region. To a great extent, this lag can be explained by the structural constraint . That limit the pace of reform') within the welfare state apparatus in developing economies, the legacies of past institutiona1 arrangements and the contradictory ideological undercurrents present in the social construction of childhood in societies characterized by profound class cleavages. From this perspective, this article attempts to provide historical clues for the understanding of some of the challenges faced by most present-day child welfare systems in Latin America.

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