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Summary: With the passing of the UN Convention
in 1989 children's rights have been
placed firmly on the political agenda.
This book explores a variety of
children's rights issues from the
Convention and beyond"With the passing of the UN Convention in 1989 children's rights have
been placed firmly on the political agenda. This book explores a
variety of children's rights issues from the Convention and beyond.
It examines the moral foundations of children's rights issues from
the Convention and beyon, and offers insights into children's rights
issues both old and new. Amongst the subjects covered are the history
of children's rights, empowerment, cultural pluralism, sexual abuse ,
contact as a child's right, the reproduction revolution and the
child's right to identity , and children's rights in the context of
English law. This is a book which those intrested in children ,
children's issues and children's rights will find stimulating and
rewarding."
Contents
Preface
The Moral status of children
Taking Children's Rights More Seriously
Laws, Conventions and Rights
Beyond Conventions towards empowerment
The limits of children's rights
English law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child
Children's rights and cultural pluralism
Contact with absent parents: an emergent child right
Do children have the right not to be born?
The rights of the artificially procreated child
Can children divorce their parents?
The James Bulger tragedy: childish innocence and the construction of
guilt
Cleveland Butler-Sloss and Beyond: How are we to react to the sexual
abuse of children?
In the child's best interest? Reading the Children's act critically
Removing rights from adolescents
Steralizing the mentally handicapped
Afterword
Index
Owner: Michael Freeman