Jo Boyden

TL;DR: The authors explores the historical origins of the ideal of childhood and traces its global export and examines its impact on the children of the poor. But the move to set global standards for childhood and common policies for child welfare may be far from the enlightened step anticipated by its proponents, and the discontinuity between the protective ideologies of child welfare embodied in both international rights legislation and national policy and the socioeconomic and cultural realities of countless children in the South is marked.

TL;DR: Investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four low-income countries over a 15-year period found that nutrition, health and well-being, cognitive and physical development, health behaviours and education, as well as the social, demographic and economic status of the household changed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide insights into children's experiences as both survivors and perpetrators of violence, focusing on girls who have been exposed to sexual exploitation and abuse, children who head households or are separated from their families, displaced children and young former combatants who are attempting to adjust to their changed circumstances following the cessation of conflict.