The best love of the child : being loved and being taught to love as the first human right / edited by Timothy P. Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Timothy P. (Timothy Patrick)

Series:

Religion, marriage, and family series

Religion, marriage, and family

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child rearing--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Child rearing.

Love--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Love.

Parenting--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Parenting.

Physical Description:

xxv, 386 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011.

Summary:

Much has been written about the rights owed to children: the right to live, the right to be nurtured and cared for, the right to an ample measure of health and happiness - and, especially, the right to be loved. In this volume twenty scholars from across sociological, psychological, historical, philosophical, theological, and legal disciplines argue that children's basic rights include both the right to be loved and the right to be taught how to love others.

Celebrating the critical roles played by family, religion, and community in protecting and developing the child's emerging personhood, The Best Love of the Child fosters a more nuanced understanding of that which is truly at the heart of a child's best interest - love that flows freely both to and from children. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Social-Psychological Perspectives :

1. When "good enough" isn't really good enough : aiming for the "best" for all young people / Peter L. Benson and Eugene C. Roehlkepartain

2. Does best love of the child mean parents should facilitate a love of the sacred? / Annette Mahoney and Ken I. Pargament

3. Parent-child reminiscing : creating best love through sharing stories / Robyn Fivush

Part II. Historical Perspectives :

4. Raising a loving child in late medieval and early modern Europe (1400-1700) / Steven Ozment

5. The duties of love : the vocation of the child in the household manual tradition / John Witte Jr. and Heather M. Johnson

6. The right to life and its application to the welfare of children in the canon law and the magisterium of the Catholic Church : 1878 to the present / Charles J. Reid Jr.

Part III. Philosophical and Theological Perspectives :

7. Collective responsibility for children in an age of orphans / Cynthia Willett

8. Original sin and Christian parenting : a constructive proposal / Richard R. Osmer

9. "Best practices" for nurturing the best love of and by children : a Protestant theological perspective on the vocations of children and parents / Marcia J. Bunge

Part IV. Legal Perspectives :

10. What's love got to do with it? (Part I) : loving children in cases of divorce or death in the Jewish tradition / Michael J. Broyde

11. What's love got to do with it? (Part II) : the best interests of the child in international and comparative law / Rana Lehr-Lehnardt and T. Jeremy Gunn

12. Can law shape the development of unconditional love in children? / Margaret F. Brinig and Steven L. Nock

13. The best love of the child? : an integrational view / Don S. Browning

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780802865397

0802865399

OCLC:

667990378

Publisher Number:

99943282713