I. Introduction -- Setting the challenge : the ethical and research context of children’s involvement in elite sport / Celia Brackenridge -- II. Global context -- Notes on international children’s rights, implications for elite sport and the work of UNICEF / Susan Bissell -- Protecting the elite child athlete : the IOC perspective / Margo Mountjoy -- III. Behavioural parameters -- Developing physical fitness and talent in elite child athletes / Jon Oliver -- Physical and emotional abuse of elite child athletes : the case of forced physical exertion / Gretchen Kerr -- The elite child athlete and injury risk / Elizabeth C. J. Pike -- From concept to model : a new theoretical framework to understand the process of emotional abuse in elite child sport / Misia Gervis -- Elite child athletes’ narratives of emotional abuse / Ashley Stirling -- Bullying, homophobia and transphobia in sport : at what cost discrimination? / Ian Rivers -- The sexual subjection of boys in sport : towards a theoretical account / Michael Hartill -- Intimate relations and sexual abuse in Danish sport / Jan Toftegaard Stǿckel -- Towards an understanding of the maintenance of unhealthy coach-athlete relationships / Daniel Rhind -- IV. Policy issues -- A review of UK based national governing bodies of sports’ websites for information relating to athlete welfare and wellbeing / Abbe Brady -- The price behind the beauty of the Olympic performance in women’s artistic gymnastics during the period 1972-1988 / Joca Zurc -- A touchy subject? The (unintended) consequences of child protection regulations on youth swimming coaches / Mel Lang -- Prevention and management of sexual harassment and abuse in Quebec sport organisations / Sylvie Parent -- The medical welfare of elite athletes : the unintended consequences of organisational change / Andrea Scott -- V. Coda -- Future priorities for research on elite child athlete welfare / Celia Brackenridge and Daniel Rhind.