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In their best interest? : the case against equal rights for children / Laura M. Purdy.
LIBRA HQ789 .P87 1992
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purdy, Laura Martha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's rights.
- Child development.
- Children--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Children.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992.
- Summary:
- From where they live and which school they attend to whether they may work, children's decisions are controlled by parents and guardians. Advocates of equal rights for children have, however, offered both empirical evidence and ethical arguments against the popular assumption that children are incompetent to exercise the same freedoms as adults.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801426626
- 0801499569
- OCLC:
- 24503571
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