Global Perspectives on Children's Unpaid Caregiving in the Family Research and Policy on 'Young Carers' in the UK, Australia, the USA and Sub- Saharan Africa
Global Perspectives on Children's Unpaid Caregiving in the Family Research and Policy on 'Young Carers' in the UK, Australia, the USA and Sub- Saharan Africa
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DOI：
10.1177/1468018107073892
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发表时间：
2007-04-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Becker, Saul
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作者：
Becker, Saul
本文提供了第一个跨国审查和综合现有的统计和研究证据，来自三个发达国家，英国，澳大利亚和美国，以及撒哈拉以南非洲，对儿童谁提供大量，定期或重要的无偿照顾其他家庭成员（“年轻的照顾者/老人”）。它利用年轻照料者问题作为在全球范围内制定和实施社会政策的窗口。本文探讨了儿童的非正式的程度，在每个国家，如何年轻的照顾者不同于其他儿童，以及如何儿童的照顾已被解释在研究中，从发达国家和发展中国家。文章包括一个审查的研究，社会政策和服务的发展，在每个国家的年轻照顾者。国家一级的认识和政策反应可分为“高级”、“中级”、“初步”或“新兴”。根据全球化文献中的主题，对各国政策和做法的差异进行了说明。报告查明了全球的机会和取得进展的制约因素，特别是在非洲。文章认为，儿童的非正式照顾角色，在发达国家和发展中国家可以位于沿着一个“照顾连续体”，年轻的照顾者，在全球范围内，有很多共同点，无论他们住在哪里或如何发达的国家福利制度。所有国家都需要将年轻的照料者作为一个独特的“弱势儿童”群体予以承认、确认、分析和支持。
This article provides the first cross- national review and synthesis of available statistical and research evidence from three developed countries, the UK, Australia and the USA, and from sub-Saharan Africa, on children who provide substantial, regular or significant unpaid care to other family members ('young carers/ caregivers'). It uses the issue of young carers as a window on the formulation and delivery of social policy in a global context. The article examines the extent of children's informal caregiving in each country; how young carers differ from other children; and how children's caring has been explained in research from both developed and developing countries. The article includes a review of the research, social policy and service developments for young carers in each country. National levels of awareness and policy response are characterized as 'advanced', 'intermediate', 'preliminary'or 'emerging'. Explanations are provided for variations in national policy and practice drawing on themes from the globalization literature. Global opportunities and constraints to progress, particularly in Africa, are identified. The article suggests that children's informal caring roles in both developed and developing nations can be located along a 'caregiving continuum'and that young carers, globally, have much in common irrespective of where they live or how developed are their national welfare systems. There is a need in all countries for young carers to be recognized, identified, analysed and supported as a distinct group of 'vulnerable children'.