Unequal paths to clienthood: Child protection and domestic bliss.
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Overlapping Inequalities in the Welfare State.: Strengths and Challenges of Intersectionality Framework.. ed. / Başak Akkan; Julia Hahmann; Christine Hunner-Kreisel; Melanie Kuhn. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2024. p. 315-330.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Unequal paths to clienthood
T2 - Child protection and domestic bliss.
AU - Alberth, Lars
AU - Bühler-Niederberger, Doris
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024, corrected publication 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Child protection
KW - Gender
KW - Generational order
KW - Private space
KW - Victimization
KW - Social Work and Social Pedagogics
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/3b34db6b-7ab5-3cc5-8c21-fb99afb1c1f8/
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-52227-7_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-52227-7_20
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
AN - SCOPUS:85206135381
SN - 978-3-031-52226-0
SN - 978-3-031-52229-1
SP - 315
EP - 330
BT - Overlapping Inequalities in the Welfare State.
A2 - Akkan, Başak
A2 - Hahmann, Julia
A2 - Hunner-Kreisel, Christine
A2 - Kuhn, Melanie
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
CY - Cham
ER -