Unequal Childhoods

<p>An expert in her field Helen Penn discusses the inequalities between and within countries of childhood poverty and how this poverty is recognized and defined through the following case-studies:</p><ul> <li>Kazakhstan - once part of the Soviet Union</li> <li>Swaziland - a country in Southern Africa devastated by HIV and AIDS</li> <li>Himalayan India</li> <li>Brazil - one of the world's most unequal countries.</li> </ul><p>These four case studies illustrate the diversity and complexity of the responses to the attempts to globalise childhood and highlight the need to address the inequalities of childhood experience.</p>