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Children : rights and childhood / David Archard.
Van Pelt Library HQ767.87 .A73 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Archard, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--History.
- Children.
- History.
- Children's rights--History.
- Children's rights.
- Family policy--History.
- Family policy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 265 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
- Summary:
- Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights. David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to a topic that has assumed increasing relevance since the book's first publication. Divided clearly into three parts is covers key topics such as: John Lockes writing on children Philippe Aries' Centuries of Childhood children's moral and legal rights a child's right to vote and to sexual choice parental rights to privacy and autonomy defining and understanding child abuse. The third edition has been fully revised and updated throughout, with a new chapter providing and indepth analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), and Part II has been restructured to move the render from general theoretical considerations of children's rights through to practical issues. This volume is ideal reading for advanced studies across Philosophy. Social Work, Law, Childhood Studies, Politics, and Social Policy. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 John Locke's children 1
- Coming to reason 3
- Parental power 8
- Conclusion 12
- Part 1 Childhood 17
- 2 The concept of childhood 19
- Article 1 19
- The Ariès thesis 23
- A note on 'modernity' 28
- A note on social constuctionism 29
- Concepts and conceptions 31
- A note on Rousseau 34
- Conceptions of childhood 35
- 3 The modern conception of childhood 41
- Separateness 41
- The developmental model: childhood as a 'stage' 44
- 'Childhood' and 'adulthood' 48
- Thre religious and literary ideal: childhood as 'innocence' 49
- Part II Children's rights 55
- 4 Children's moral rights 57
- Moral and legal rights 57
- The will theory and the interest theory 58
- The scope and weight of moral rights 60
- 5 Liberation or caretaking? 64
- Children's liberation 64
- The caretaker thesis 71
- 6 Arbitrariness and incompetence 80
- Arbitariness 80
- Incompetence 86
- 7 The wrongs of children's rights 93
- Rights are all-or-nothing 94
- The impoverished world of rights 99
- Rights talk is not the way to speak of children 104
- 8 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 107
- The importance of the Convention 107
- Rights of the child 110
- Best interests 112
- Hearing the child 117
- A central tension 119
- 9 Children under the law 124
- Legal rights 124
- Children at law 125
- Welfare versus justice 132
- Vicarious parental liability 133
- 10 Children's rights to vote and sexual choice 136
- The right to vote 136
- The right to sexual choice 144
- Part III Children, parents, family and state 153
- 11 Bearing and rearing 155
- A right to rear 155
- I bear therefore I rear 160
- Parental duties and parental rights 168
- 12 Family and state 174
- The liberal standards 174
- The state 175
- The family 181
- 13 Parental rights to privacy and autonomy 189
- Individualism versus collectivism 189
- Privacy 191
- Autonomy 197
- 14 Collectivism 201
- Plato's proposal 201
- The licensing of parents 206
- 15 The problem of child abuse 216
- The discovery of abuse 216
- Defining abuse 219
- Sexual abuse 228
- 16 Conclusion: a modest collectivist proposal 232.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415724852
- 0415724856
- 9780415724869
- 0415724864
- OCLC:
- 900118615
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