Overview: Explores the definitions, perceptions and experiences of “children” and “childhood” in the Caribbean.Examines how the nature of childhood has changed over time.Analyses levels of provision for childreThis book examines childhood in four Caribbean SIDS (Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti and St.?Lucia). Through the analysis of primary and secondary data, the author reveals that children in?Caribbean SIDS experience an endangered childhood. The intrinsic characteristics of SIDs,?including susceptibility to climate change, and high levels of poverty, indebtedness and?inequality, Henry-Lee argues,
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