Local childhoods, global issues / edited by Heather Montgomery. - Second edition. - Bristol : The Policy Press, 2013. - xii, 299 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm. - Childhood . - Childhood. .

Previous edition: 2003. Published in association with the Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume considers the problems caused by poverty, social inequality, ill-health and violence and emphasises that these are challenges for children everywhere, not just those in the poorer countries of the world.

9781447305835 (pbk.) : �22.99


Children--Cross-cultural studies.
Children--Social conditions--Cross-cultural studies.
Society.