Child poverty
Subtitle: love, justice, and social responsibility
By: Pamela Couture.
Publisher: Chalice Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: St. Louis, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780827205093
Subjects: Church work with poor children; Church work with children; Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Poor children; Child welfare; Social justice; Church and social problems
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Seeing and hearing all children, despite the layers that obscure them; title: Culture, ethics and ministry with children and poverty; title: Deserving or undeserving children?; title: Love, justice, and children in public and private; title: Love, justice and the spiritual persistence of the caregiver; title: Poverty, love, justice and integrative understandings of pastoral care, mission and evangelism; title: Interlude between section one and section two; title: The unnamed children's issues; title: Families with children, governments, and the private sector; title: Debating the human rights of the child; title: Children in the global economy; title: Children in a sustainable environment; title: Children, violence and peace; title: Interlude from section two to three; title: Rhizomatic ministry : engaging disciples and apostles; title: Rhizomatic ministry in a new century of the child; title: Do ministries with children and poverty have a role in Christian discipleship?; title: Renewing the apostolate for children and poverty; title: Conclusion: Beyond "cause de jure".