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The moral status of children : essays on the rights of the child / by Michael Freeman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: The Hague, The Netherlands : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, [1997]Distributor: Cambridge, MA : Sold and distributed in the USA and Canada by Kluwer Law International Copyright date: ©1997Description: xiii, 404 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9041103775
  • 9789041103772
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ789 .F7 1997
Contents:
The moral status of children -- Taking children's rights more seriously -- Laws, conventions and rights -- Beyond conventions : towards empowerment -- The limits of children's rights -- English law and the United Nations convention on the rights of the child -- Children's rights and cultural pluralism -- Contact with absent parents : an emergent child right -- Do children have the right not to be born? -- The rights of the artificially procreated child -- Can children divorce their parents? -- The James Bulger tragedy : childish innocence and the construction of guilt -- Cleveland, Butler-Sloss and beyond : how are we to react to the sexual abuse of children? -- In the child's best interest? : reading the Children Act critically -- Removing rights from adolescents -- Sterilizing the mentally handicapped -- Afterword.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 305.23 FRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A416752B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The moral status of children -- Taking children's rights more seriously -- Laws, conventions and rights -- Beyond conventions : towards empowerment -- The limits of children's rights -- English law and the United Nations convention on the rights of the child -- Children's rights and cultural pluralism -- Contact with absent parents : an emergent child right -- Do children have the right not to be born? -- The rights of the artificially procreated child -- Can children divorce their parents? -- The James Bulger tragedy : childish innocence and the construction of guilt -- Cleveland, Butler-Sloss and beyond : how are we to react to the sexual abuse of children? -- In the child's best interest? : reading the Children Act critically -- Removing rights from adolescents -- Sterilizing the mentally handicapped -- Afterword.

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