Child impoverishment and the human rights of children

Wouter Vandenhole

Chapter 9 in Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty, 2026, pp 148-165 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Child poverty deserves separate attention, but not as a fact of life. Child poverty is the result of policy measures, and may therefore be more appropriately referred to as child impoverishment. This chapter pursues two main lines of inquiry. The first one is how to link child impoverishment and children's rights conceptually: through a right to protection against poverty, a right to distributive equality or a children's rights-based approach to poverty? The second line of inquiry zooms in on seven challenges a children's rights-based approach to impoverishment faces, such as whether child impoverishment can legally be qualified as a violation of children's rights, whether placement into care or intercountry adoption are appropriate responses to child poverty and how children's rights could be strengthened to offer a more robust answer to global child poverty.

Keywords: Child poverty; Children's rights; Impoverishment; Placement into care; Intercountry adoption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035350506
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