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The relationship rights of children / James G. Dwyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dwyer, James G., 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parent and child (Law)--United States.
- Parent and child (Law).
- United States.
- Children--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Children.
- Children--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Guardian and ward--United States.
- Guardian and ward.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This book presents a sustained theoretical analysis of what rights children should possess in connection with state decision making about their personal relationships which the state does in numerous aspects of family law, including paternity, adoption, custody and visitation, termination of parental rights, and grandparent visitation. It examines the nature and normative foundation of adults' rights in connection with relationships among themselves and then assesses the extent to which the moral principles underlying adults' rights apply also to children. It concludes that the law should ascribe to children rights equivalent (though not identical) to those which adults enjoy, and this would require substantial changes in the way the legal system treats children, including a reformation of the rules for establishing legal parent-child relationships at birth and of the rules for deciding whether to end a parent-child relationship.
- Contents:
- Why rights for children?
- The existing relationship rights of children
- Paradigmatic relationship rights
- Why adults have the relationship rights they do
- Extending the theoretical underpinnings of relationship rights to children
- Rebutting defenses of the status quo
- Implementing children's moral rights in law
- Applications.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511511097
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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