Unequal paths to clienthood: Child protection and domestic bliss.

Publikation: Beiträge in SammelwerkenAufsätze in SammelwerkenForschung

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As child protection programs allow for a variety of constructions of clienthood, they might be susceptible to enforcing inequalities among their target population: children and their parents. Three steps on the unequal path to clienthood are presented on the basis of 70 case narrations from German child protection professionals. In a first step, child protection’s focus is shifted from children to adult clients. In a second step, this shift is gendered as it is geared specifically towards “mothers” and not “fathers.” Finally, not all mothers are considered equally: Child protection works on the premises of domestic bliss regulating poor mothers with the explicit goal of establishing a properly ordered household, thus promising “improvement” for the clients. On the basis of such a premise, children (in general), male caretakers, and mothers who are able to deliver a proper family performance may be underserved by child protection services, whereas poor mothers who are unable to follow the expectations of domestic bliss are further marginalized and placed under control.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelOverlapping Inequalities in the Welfare State. : Strengths and Challenges of Intersectionality Framework.
HerausgeberBaşak Akkan, Julia Hahmann, Christine Hunner-Kreisel, Melanie Kuhn
Anzahl der Seiten16
ErscheinungsortCham
VerlagSpringer International Publishing AG
Erscheinungsdatum2024
Seiten315-330
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-52226-0, 978-3-031-52229-1
ISBN (elektronisch)978-3-031-52227-7
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 2024

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