{"title":"RETRACTION: Behavioural Activation and Inhibition Systems of Fathers, Child Abuse and Childhood Psychopathology: The Mediating Role of Demographics","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/chso.12988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12988","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>RETRACTION:</b> M. R. Bougar, S. H. M. Babaheydari, S. Khodarahimi, N. Mazraeh, and M. Sadeghi, “Behavioural Activation and Inhibition Systems of Fathers, Child Abuse and Childhood Psychopathology: The Mediating Role of Demographics,” <i>Children & Society</i> (Early View): https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12929.</p><p>The above article, published online on 26 November 2024 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editors, Liam Berriman, Deevia Bhana, Sarah Crafter, Martin Robb and Yuwei Xu; Wendy Sims-Schouten, chair of the Editorial Board; the National Children's Bureau; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to unreliable conclusions and ethical concerns about the study.</p><p>Shortly after publication, the editorial office identified problems regarding the ethical approval and safeguarding practices underlying the study. Concerns were raised about the age and vulnerabilities of the minors involved in the study, the ethical appropriateness of a questionnaire on experiences of paternal abuse, the lack of consideration around age-appropriate practices of informed consent, and general absence of safeguarding and trauma-informed practice in the study's design and implementation.</p><p>In a subsequent research integrity investigation, original data provided by the authors was incomplete and was inconsistent with the published results. Based on these inconsistencies, the results presented in this manuscript are considered unreliable. The ethics approval statement, which was obtained retrospectively by the authors, is also considered to be insufficient.</p><p>Overall, the editorial office express deep concerns over this research involving minors, the corresponding study approval process, and how consent for participation by legal guardians was obtained. This practice described in this article is considered a violation of our expectations regarding the well-being and safeguarding of vulnerable children and constitutes unethical research.</p><p>The authors disagree with the decision to retract.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12988","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children as Social Butterflies: Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss KindergartenBy Ursina Jaeger, New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, London and Oxford: Rutgers University Press, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-9788-3698-3","authors":"Lynn J. McNair","doi":"10.1111/chso.12986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12986","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":"1014-1015"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teenage Intimacies: Young Women, Sex and Social Life in England 1950–80. By Hannah Charnock, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025. 294 pp. £85 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-52-617315-7","authors":"Rachel Thomson","doi":"10.1111/chso.12989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12989","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":"1018-1019"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature. By Amanda M. Greenwell, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2024. 201 pp. $30.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-49-685455-1","authors":"Rudrani Sarma","doi":"10.1111/chso.12985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12985","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":"1016-1017"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children and Violence: Agency, Experience and Representation in and Beyond Armed Conflict. By Christelle Molima Bameka, Jastine C. Barrett, Mohamed Kamara, Karl Hanson, and Mark A. Drumbl (eds.), Abingdon, England: Routledge, 2025. 270 pp. £145.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-03-271071-6","authors":"Kai Chen","doi":"10.1111/chso.12983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12983","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":"1012-1013"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144815204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I'd Probably Scroll by’: An Exploration of Young People's Views on Spotting and Stopping Misinformation","authors":"Yvonne Skipper","doi":"10.1111/chso.12962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12962","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Misinformation is one of the defining challenges of our era. Many young people are online for multiple hours a day and are exposed to vast amounts of misinformation. However, there is limited research exploring their understanding of what misinformation is and whether they feel equipped to spot and challenge it. The aim of the current study was to qualitatively explore young people's views on misinformation. Participants were <i>N</i> = 37 pupils aged from 11 to 14 who participated in focus groups. Data was analysed using thematic analysis. Three main themes were identified: awareness of misinformation, detection of misinformation and stopping misinformation. Although participants were aware of misinformation, they felt that spotting it was an intuitive skill and relied on others to help identify it. They did not feel empowered to challenge misinformation and felt the platforms had a key role in stopping the spread. This has implications for the design of misinformation interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":"940-949"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12962","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144815245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karen Winter, Rosie Flewitt, Sandra El Gemayel, Lisa Bunting, Lorna Arnott, Paul Connolly, Andrew Dalziell, Julia Gillen, Janet Goodall, Min-Chen Liu, Katrina McLaughlin, Sabina Savadova, Sarah Timmins
{"title":"The Rights of Very Young Children in the Digital Environment of the Family Home: Findings From a UK Survey of Children 0–36 Months and Their Parents","authors":"Karen Winter, Rosie Flewitt, Sandra El Gemayel, Lisa Bunting, Lorna Arnott, Paul Connolly, Andrew Dalziell, Julia Gillen, Janet Goodall, Min-Chen Liu, Katrina McLaughlin, Sabina Savadova, Sarah Timmins","doi":"10.1111/chso.12968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12968","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As digital technologies have become increasingly embedded in daily family life, there has been a growing international concern about children's protection, provision and participation rights in a digital environment. Recognising this, the Committee on the Rights of the Child published General Comment No. 25 <i>Children's Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment</i> (CRC, 2021), giving detailed advice on implementation issues in this area and calling for up-to-date research about children's digital lives. This paper makes a significant contribution to that much-needed knowledge base by reporting the findings of an online survey conducted with parents and legal guardians (<i>n</i> = 1444) (hereafter parents) of children aged 0–36 months across socially and ethnically diverse families in the four UK nations. The survey represented phase one of a larger three-phase project, ‘Toddlers, Tech and Talk’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which aimed to build an empirically robust body of knowledge about how 0-3-year-olds' lives intersect with digital technologies at home in socially and ethnically diverse families in inner-city, urban and rural communities. The survey found that nearly all family homes have Wi-Fi connection, that many homes have a wide range of digital devices and that very young children engage in a wide range of digital activities both with their parents and on their own. Parents' mediation practices are shaped by parental digital practices and attitudes, with concomitant implications for children's digital rights. Implications are highlighted.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":"995-1011"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12968","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144815209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kexin Wang, Fang Yu, Xiang Cao, Zaizai Wang, Weiqi Mu, Mingjie Zhou, Bin Wang
{"title":"Development and Validation of the Polymedia Compensation Scale for Left-Behind Children in Migrant Families","authors":"Kexin Wang, Fang Yu, Xiang Cao, Zaizai Wang, Weiqi Mu, Mingjie Zhou, Bin Wang","doi":"10.1111/chso.12965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12965","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Left-behind children (LBC) in China, whose parents migrate to urban areas for employment, face unique challenges in maintaining parent–child relationships. This study investigates how LBC utilise polymedia to compensate for physical parental absence and examines its association with parent–child attachment. Through exploratory factor analysis of data collected from 549 LBC in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, we developed a Polymedia Compensation Scale comprising three dimensions: parental accessibility, parental engagement and perceived consolation. The scale structure was subsequently validated using a separate sample (<i>N</i> = 563), demonstrating robust psychometric properties. Analysis revealed that polymedia compensation experiences were significantly higher among younger LBC, LBC with migrant mothers and LBC reporting secure parent–child attachment. These findings contribute to our understanding of how digital communication technologies mediate parent–child relationships in the context of internal migration.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":"973-984"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Monk, Elizabeth Walton, Roda Madziva, George Opio, Annemaaike Kruisselbrink, George Ladaah Openjuru
{"title":"Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach","authors":"David Monk, Elizabeth Walton, Roda Madziva, George Opio, Annemaaike Kruisselbrink, George Ladaah Openjuru","doi":"10.1111/chso.12969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12969","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article listed below, intended for publication in the Special Issue ‘<b>Childhoods and South-South Migration</b>’ was inadvertently published in a regular issue, volume 38, Issue 5. This article should be cited as shown below.</p><p>\u0000 <b>Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach</b>\u0000 </p><p>David Monk, Elizabeth Walton, Roda Madziva, George Opio, Annemaaike Kruisselbrink, George Ladaah Openjuru</p><p>Pages: 1419–1434</p><p>\u0000 https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12810\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 3","pages":"669"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12969","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differential Response to Child Protection in an Intercultural Context: The Viewpoint and Experience of Parents and Young People From Ethnocultural Minorities","authors":"Chantal Lavergne, Héloïse Pelletier Gagnon, Rosita Vargas Diaz, Sarah Dufour, Marie-Joëlle Robichaud","doi":"10.1111/chso.12966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12966","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Differential response (DR) is an alternative to traditional approaches in child protection. DR is promising for ethnocultural minority (ECM) families at low risk of maltreatment. This qualitative study explores the experience and perspectives of ECM families regarding DR based on interviews with 11 parents and four youth in Quebec. The results highlight the strengths of DR in establishing positive collaboration with families and the perceived positive impact. However, uptake of services by ECM families remains low due to barriers to accessing post-intervention support. Implications for the development of strategies adapted to the specific needs of ECM families are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"39 5","pages":"985-994"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12966","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144814884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}