This paper examines literature concerning the differences between the treatment and view of
children in southern-based settings and the treatment and view of children in western, northern-based settings. The paper also discusses the methodology through which cultures justify and define the rights and "
best interests" of children, and the ways in which the dynamics of child-adult
relationships are identified and categorized. Erica Burman: Appealing and Appalling Children, Psychoanalytic Studies, 1999 Chris Jenks: Childhood 1996 Erica Burman: The Abnormal Distribution of Development: Policies for Southern women and children; Gender Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 1995: B. Rwezaura: The Concept of the
Child's Best Interests in the Changing Economic and Social Context of Sub-Saharan Africa (in The Best Interests of the Child, Philip Alston) Allison James: Childhood Identities: Self and Social Relationships in the Experience of the Child 1993: Michael Freeman: The Moral Status of Children: Essays on the Rights of the Child 1997: Martin Woodhead: "Psychology and the Cultural Construction of Children's Needs" (in Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood) 1997: Abdullahi An-Na'Im: "Cultural Transformation and Normative Consensus on the Best Interests of the Child" (in The Best Interests of the Child) 1994:
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