Children as equals : exploring the rights of the child / edited by Kathleen Alaimo, Brian Klug.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alaimo, Kathleen.

Klug, Brian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's rights.

Physical Description:

xvi, 269 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Historical Roots of Children's Rights in Europe and the United States / Kathleen Alaimo 1

Chapter 2 Wendy and Peter Pan: Exploring the Concept of the Child / Brian Klug 25

Chapter 3 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Developing International Norms to Create a New World for Children / Cynthia Price Cohen 49

Chapter 4 Psychology and the Rights of the Child / Malfrid Grude Flekkoy 73

Chapter 5 Rights of the Child: A Philosophical Approach / Rosalind Ekman Ladd 89

Chapter 6 The Promise of Rights for Children: Best Interests and Evolving Capacities / Christina M. Bellon 103

Chapter 7 Creating the Child, Constructing the State: People v. Turner, 1870 / David S. Tanenhaus 127

Chapter 8 A Child-Centered Jurisprudence: Reconciling the Rights of Children and Parents Within the Family / Joan M. Smith 145

Chapter 9 The Right to Be Heard: The Child as a Legal Person / Lewis Pitts 165

Chapter 10 Child Advocacy in the United States and the Power of International Human Rights Law / Roger J. R. Levesque 183

Chapter 11 Children's Rights in the Curriculum / Sara Ellen Kitchen 197

Chapter 12 Children's Studies and the Human Rights of Children: Toward a Unified Approach / Gertrud Lenzer 207

Appendix United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-259) and index.

ISBN:

076182300X

0761823018

OCLC:

49383926