What's wrong with children's rights / Martin Guggenheim.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xiii, 306 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0674017218
- 9780674017214
- 323.3520973 22
- HQ789 .G78 2005
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| 323.352 JON Rethinking children's rights : attitudes in contemporary society / | 323.352 NEW The new handbook of children's rights : comparative policy and practice / | 323.3520941 HAI Young people and youth justice / | 323.3520973 GUG What's wrong with children's rights / | 323.4 CRA What are human rights / | 323.4 HUM Human rights / | 323.4 SEM Report of a Seminar on Human Rights held in Wellington, New Zealand, on 9-10 December, 1978 / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-298) and index.
1. A brief history of children's rights in the United States -- 2. The rights of parents -- 3. Getting and losing parental rights : the "baby Jessica" case -- 4. Who gets to be the parent? : the right to relationships with someone else's children -- 5. Divorce, custody, and visitation -- 6. Child protection, foster care, and termination of parental rights -- 7. Children's rights that serve adults' needs : the case of adolescents' right to abortion -- 8. How children's rights impact family law and juvenile rights.
"Children's rights": the phrase has been a legal battle cry for twenty-five years. But as this provocative book by a nationally renowned expert on children's legal standing argues, it is neither possible nor desirable to isolate children from the interests of their parents, or those of society as a whole.
""Children's rights": the phrase has been a legal battle cry for twenty-five years. But as this provocative book by a nationally renowned expert on children's legal standing argues, it is neither possible nor desirable to isolate children from the interests of their parents, or those of society as a whole."--BOOK JACKET.
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