Paper on the current risks faced by children and young people in society, the risks society faces from children and young people and the future for childhood...
Buckhurst Hill
February 2010
A bit about me: difficult children, risk-taking and at-risk, CAMH Community Industry, Handsworth Alternative, University, Castle Vale. Life Research: 11 years: social, educational and public health research. 2 Nods Nod to intriguing boundaries between normality, madness and badness The other Nod? Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) (Not Tanya!) A nod towards Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Swiss born philosopher Said to have ‘invented childhood’ “ children should be children before being men”; “ A child has his own special needs as a being who exists in his own right”. A bit about this talk Title, intertwining of the mad and the bad… and a bit about the dangerous to know. Childhood lasts a long time, I shall stick more to the teenage years