Annual Bulletin of Japan Academic Society for Educational Policy
Online ISSN : 2424-1474
ISSN-L : 2424-1474
Child Poverty and the Modern Nation: The Childcare as a Private Affair and the School Education as a State Apparatus
Tetsuhiko NAKAJIMA
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2021 Volume 28 Pages 84-92

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Child rearing is divided into the childcare as a private affair and the education at the school which is organized as a state apparatus. And the problem of child poverty is being dealt as a problem related to the former. Therefore, the following problems occur. (1)The quality of child's everyday life is dependent on the parent's economic and social abilities, so parental financial distress and social exclusion / isolation are directly linked to child poverty. (2)Measures against child poverty are not considered in the category of state obligation for children's rights protection, but are carried out as the “support” for parents who are obliged to care for their own child. (3) “Educational support” aims to provide life opportunities for children in poverty to escape from poverty on their own efforts in the future. And through this process, child is subsumed into the capitalist social order and competition system, and the idea that poverty is the self-responsibility of the poor is acquired.
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