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Read, Janet; Blackburn, Clare; Spencer, Nick – Children & Society, 2012
Focusing mainly on the United Kingdom, this article reviews a decade of national and international policy and legal changes in relation to disabled children and their families. It discusses attempts to transform the ways that disabled children are perceived and the rights accorded to them. The UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Public Policy
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Wagstaff, Graham F. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1983
Investigated British attitudes toward the poor as measured by MacDonald's Povery Scale and the Protestant Ethic Scale. Supporters of the British Conservative Party had more negative attitudes toward the poor, and were more likely to blame the poor for their fate than supporters of the British Labour Party. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adults, Attribution Theory, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes