It examines the attitudes to children over the past 200 years and how these still shape social policy. It reviews the historical links between the social, economic and ideological conditions that led to social policy research and the links to changes in policy. The book is split into five chapters. After an introduction, the second charts the development of empirical research and how the use of statistics and the social survey quantified child poverty. The way research has had an impact on social policy has much to do with the historical context: from the development of...