'I am pleased to read a publication that challenges our language and our thinking in discussing children's lives. European Childhoods encourages us to look beyond legislation, policies and services to children's experiences and examine the assumptions behind the way we describe them.' Bronwen Cohen, Children and Society

'For anyone with an academic or professional interest in children's rights, this collection would be an invaluable addition to their library and is an inspirational precedent for discussing childhoods in general.' - Liz Moore, Social Policy

FERRAN CASAS Senior Professor of Social Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Girona, Spain DYMPNA DEVINE Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University College Dublin, Ireland EVA GULLØV is Senior Lecturer, Department of Educational Anthropology, Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, Denmark HEINZ HENGST Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences, is retired from Hochschule Bremen, Department of Sozialwesen, Germany MICHAEL-SEBASTIAN HONIG Full Professor of Educational Science, University of Trier, Germany ANNE TRINE KJØRHOLT Director and Associate Professor, Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Trondheim, Norway RANDI DYBLIE NILSEN Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway JENS QVORTRUP Magister and PhD in sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark SPYROS SPYROU Director, Center for the Study of Childhood and Adolescence and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Cyprus College, Cyprus