This article draws on child activists’ experiences in Bangladesh and Ghana, who mobilised to stop potential marriages from their respective Child Forums Children’s Parliaments. Case studies were undertaken with 75 activists, 10 girls whose had been stopped, 22 adult stakeholders. The children’s activism disrupted intergenerational relations – unsettling adults’ attitudes towards children depend...

The phenomenon of Child Marriage is referred to as a marriage or similar union between child and an adult another under the age eighteen. causes include: family relations, sexual discrimination, controlling relationships maintaining dignity family, certain economic factors other social cultural well.

Over 1 billion children worldwide are exposed to political violence and armed conflict. The current conclusions are qualified by limited longitudinal research testing sophisticated process-oriented explanatory models for child adjustment outcomes. In this study, consistent with a developmental psychopathology perspective emphasizing the value of process-oriented longitudinal study of child adju...

Abstract Background Mental disorder in childhood is an important public health issue. We aimed to examine the prospective association between parental education at childbirth and diagnosed mental disorders young children explore whether this was mediated or modified by parent–child relations infancy. Methods Prospective cohort study of all newborn from 2002 2010 16 municipalities capital region...

The concept of alliance or preferably ‘alignment’, as I shall explain below – is central to the conduct of international politics, and thus the discipline of International Relations (IR). Duffield et al. (2008: 291) identify that ‘Alliances are one of the most significant phenomena in security studies and world politics more generally’, while Modelski (1963: 773) considers them ‘one of a dozen ...

In this article I locate some of the fundamental problems of self-determination within the context of an evolving international society. First, I argue that one particular manifestation of self-determination, that of national self-determination, is both a solution to the enduring problem of territorial legitimation in international relations as well as the source of subsequent challenges to ter...

The present study examined the relations between child maltreatment and reactive and proactive functions of aggression, and whether hostile attribution biases partially accounted for these associations in a sample of 339 college students (mean age = 19; 51% male). Child maltreatment was associated with reactive, but not proactive, aggression, and instrumental hostile attribution biases accounte...