%0 Journal Article
%T Poisoning children: A reflection on the social constraints of children¡¯s agency and narratives of sexual abuse
%A Claudio Baraldi£¿
%J Childhood
%@ 1461-7013
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0907568218820417
%X Drawing inspiration from a story of abuses, involving 16 children in 1997¨C1998, this article deals with the social constraints on children¡¯s participation in institutional interactions, in particular for what concerns their accounts of abuse. The article explores the problem of the truthfulness of children¡¯s accounts through the lenses of an approach combining a theory of narratives, the concept of children¡¯s agency and the analysis of interactions. It analyses the institutional context in which the children¡¯s narratives were constructed and validated, drawing some conclusions about the ways in which institutions may deal with children¡¯s agency
%K Agency
%K generational order
%K institutional interactions
%K narratives
%K truthfulness
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0907568218820417