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Child Well-Being: A Philosophical Perspective

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Handbook of Child Well-Being

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One general challenge is to determine how different facets of children’s well-being (in medicine, law, sciences, common beliefs, etc.) should be integrated in a balanced, comprehensive, and practical account of child well-being that can help guide decisions concerning children. Philosophy can contribute to this task by posing some relevant questions and analyzing several basic concepts.

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  1. Philosophisches Institut, Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany

    Dr. Alexander Bagattini

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  1. Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Asher Ben-Arieh

  2. Research Institute of Quality of Life, University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Ferran Casas

  3. Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Ivar Frønes

  4. Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Jill E. Korbin

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Bagattini, A. (2014). Child Well-Being: A Philosophical Perspective. In: Ben-Arieh, A., Casas, F., Frønes, I., Korbin, J. (eds) Handbook of Child Well-Being. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9063-8_8

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