Freeman, Michael D. A., <br/><br/>
The moral status of children :  essays on the rights of the child / 
by Michael Freeman. 
 - xiii, 404 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9041103775 9789041103772 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97034181 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Children's rights<br/>Children's rights--Great Britain
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ789  / .F7 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.23