Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether children’s online play and participation in massively … behaviours. This exploratory study also examines the influence of age-related differences in children’s social and consumer …-depth interviews with 20 French children between the ages of eight and 12 years. Findings Results show that children’s online play and …

Theories of the family are outlined and related to the socioeconomic deprivation of females and children giving Indian … a poor indicator of female and family welfare. The question is then investigated of how women and children are faring … poverty among women and children in subsistence contexts and in some former centrally planned economies. Furthermore …

to sons and daughters, to gauge the influence of wives on the welfare of their children and to compare the socio …

Conventional consumer equivalence scales measure the cost of children (and other household living arrangements) but not … their benefits. Since many people choose to have children, these costs must be outweighed by other benefits. This paper … and children in the same household. Though the adults may have chosen their lower living standard in exchange for the …

children in Italy, where a very low fertility rate may be observed. Design/methodology/approach – Since the number of children … analysis. First, the authors estimate the correlation between the female's education and her number of children, and then the … observations might be due either to the choice not to have children, or to the impossibility of becoming a mother. For this reason …

groups concerned with women. It suggests that women living alone with their children bear a disproportionate share of the … getting worse for women and children, even as it improves for the general population? If it is, why is it happening? And … maintenance levels, significantly raising the level of public support programmes for children, making available reasonable …

Recently in China there has been a problem of “excessiveness of education”, i.e. parents′ education of their children … exceeds certain limits. This is considered under three categories: (1) excessive attachment to children in daily life; (2 …) excessive care for children′s study; and (3) use of excessive regular methods. Category (1) can lead to priority being given to …

Plagiarizes Jonathan Swift to produce a tongue‐in‐cheek proposal for the relief of the burden of children to the poor …

relationships children develop with their family, peers and teacher. Design/methodology/approach – In all, six classes in French … primary schools are observed for six months. Among the 112 children observed, aged 10-11 years, 24 of them are interviewed … spheres (peers, parents and teacher) relative to this relationship. Then, the most frequent trajectories children follow …