Re-understanding the child's right to identity : : on belonging, responsiveness and hope / / by Ya'ir Ronen.

• Author: Ronen, Yaʼir
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Nijhoff Law Specials 92.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (153 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Re-understanding the Child’s Right to Identity - On belonging, Responsiveness and Hope , by Ya'ir Ronen offers an innovative understanding of the right to identity aiming to transform its meaning and thus its protection. Drawing on sources from different disciplines, including law, theology, philosophy, psychology and social work, the author offers a vision of social and legal change in which law is a healing force. In it, policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging recognizing human interdependence. They dignify children's disempowered narratives through their responsiveness, protect children's need to be authentic beings and nourish the hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Re-understanding the Right to Identity as a Right to Belonging -- Responsiveness to Children and Law’s Healing Power -- Children’s Identity: Constructing Memory through Law and Its Responsiveness to Children -- The Child’s Right to Be Oneself -- The Courage to Hope and Protecting Children’s Sense of Belonging: The Case of Child Protection -- Endnote -- Bibliography -- Index.