Child Law

by Krause, Harry D.

• ISBN13: 9780814746318
• ISBN10: 0814746314
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-02-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Editor's Apologia and Acknowledgements
Preface
Series Preface
Introduction
Children's Rights
A Bill of Rights for Children	p. 3
The Emergence of Children's Rights	p. 37
Rights for the Next Generation: A Feminist Approach to Children's Rights	p. 59
Children's Rights: A Framework for Analysis	p. 83
Parental Rights, Society's Responsibility?
Children's Liberation and the New Egalitarianism: Some Reservations About Abandoning Youth to Their "Rights"	p. 113
The Modern Function and Limits of Parental Rights	p. 167
The Best Interest of the Child? (Concerning the Freud-Goldstein-Solnit Theory)
Freedom and the Welfare State: Child-Rearing, Parental Autonomy and State Intervention	p. 193
"There is a Book Out...": An Analysis of Judicial Absorption of Legislative Facts	p. 215
Review of Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud and Albert J. Solnit "Beyond the Best Interests of the Child"	p. 281
Judge Posner's Proposition and the Economics of Adoption
The Regulation of the Market in Adoptions	p. 303
Child Custody on Divorce
Child of Divorce: An Overview	p. 319
The Children of Armageddon: Problems of Custody Following Divorce	p. 333
Custody Investigations as Evidence in Divorce Cases	p. 365
The Cold Support Obligation and One Paragraph on 'Illegitimacy'
Men Who Know They Are Watched: Some Benefits and Costs of Jailing for Nonpayment of Support	p. 387
Child Support Reassessed: Limits of Private Responsibility and the Public Interest	p. 429
Name Index	p. 461
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