Easy targets: a disability rights perspective on the'children as carers' debate

L Keith, J Morris - Critical Social Policy, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
This article looks at how the children of disabled parents are being defined as' young carers',
arguing that the way in which this is hap pening undermines both the rights of children and …

Disability rights and the denial of young carers: The dangers of zero-sum arguments

J Aldridge, S Becker - Critical social policy, 1996 - journals.sagepub.com
Research, debate and policy on young carers has been welcomed by the carers movement
and children's rights practitioners alike, but challenged by some disability rights authors who …

A response to Aldridge and Becker-'Disability rights and the denial of young carers: the dangers of zero-sum arguments'

R Olsen, G Parker - Critical Social Policy, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
Becker in Critical Social Policy (Issue 16 (3)). While ostensibly a rejoin-der to other authors,
Aldridge and Becker devote at least half of their paper to a critique of our work, which many …

Women, disability, care: Good neighbours or uneasy bedfellows?

C Beckett - Critical Social Policy, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Disabled activists and feminist thinkers both lay claim to ownership ofcare'. To the disabled
people's movement, care is a necessity on the road to equal rights and citizenship. To …

Care ethics and carers with learning disabilities: A challenge to dependence and paternalism

N Ward - Ethics and Social Welfare, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
People with learning disabilities are one of the most excluded groups of people in British
society and have historically been positioned as being in need of lifelong care, incapable of …

Care of empowerment? A disability rights perspective

J Morris - Social Policy & Administration, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
This paper challenges the notion of “care”, arguing that people who need support in their
daily lives have been constructed as “dependent people”. Instead, the author argues, if we …

Respite care for disabled children: Micro and macro reflections

A Cocks - Disability & Society, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the proposal that by exploring at a micro level the control exercised
over children it is possible to identify the wider societal mechanisms for maintaining power at …

Constructing 'normal childhoods': Young people talk about young carers

L O'Dell, S Crafter, G de Abreu, T Cline - Childhood and Disability, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
There has been a great deal of attention paid to young carers in recent research, social
policy and service provision. This chapter reports on a survey and interview study of 46 …

'Young Carers' and Disabled Parents: Time for a change of direction?

T Newman - Disability & Society, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
In less than a decade, children who provide care for ill or disabled parents and siblings have
become a major target of social welfare services.'Young carers' suffer, it is suggested, from a …

The social relations of care

T Shakespeare - Rethinking social policy, 2000 - books.google.com
Many disability rights commentators have reached the conclusion that not only has the
welfare state failed disabled people, but that the academic discipline of social policy has …