Children as Equals Exploring the Rights of the Child

by Alaimo, Kathleen; Klug, Brian; Pais, Marta Santos; Cohen, Cynthia Price; Flekkøy, Målfrid Grude; Ladd, Rosalind Ekman; Bellon, Christina M.; Tanenhaus, David S.; Smith, Joan M.; Pitts, Lewis; R. Levesque, Roger J.; Kitchen, Sara Ellen; Lenzer, Gertrud

• ISBN13: 9780761823001
• ISBN10: 076182300X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-30
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Children as Equals explores the subject of children's rights. The twelve chapters are written by authors whose disciplines include history, law, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Historical Roots of Children's Rights in Europe and the United States	p. 1
Wendy and Peter Pan: Exploring the Concept of the Child	p. 25
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Developing International Norms to Create a New World for Children	p. 49
Psychology and the Rights of the Child	p. 73
Rights of the Child: A Philosophical Approach	p. 89
The Promise of Rights for Children: Best Interests and Evolving Capacities	p. 103
Creating the Child, Constructing the State: People v. Turner, 1870	p. 127
A Child-Centered Jurisprudence: Reconciling the Rights of Children and Parents Within the Family	p. 145
The Right to Be Heard: The Child as a Legal Person	p. 165
Child Advocacy in the United States and the Power of International Human Rights Law	p. 183
Children's Rights in the Curriculum	p. 197
Children's Studies and the Human Rights of Children: Toward a Unified Approach	p. 207
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)	p. 227
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 257
Index	p. 261
About the Contributors	p. 267
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