The Moral Status of Children : : Essays on the Rights of the Child.

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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 1997.
©1997.
Year of Publication:1997
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (418 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. The Moral Status of Children
  • Chapter 2. Taking Children's Rights More Seriously
  • Chapter 3. Laws, Conventions and Rights
  • Chapter 4. Beyond Conventions-Towards Empowerment
  • Chapter 5. The Limits of Children's Rights
  • Chapter 6. English Law and the United Nations Convention on The Rights of the Child
  • Chapter 7. Children's Rights and Cultural Pluralism
  • Chapter 8. Contact With Absent Parents: An Emergent Child Right
  • Chapter 9. Do Children Have the Right Not to be Born?
  • Chapter 10. The Rights of the Artificially Procreated Child
  • Chapter 11. Can Children Divorce their Parents?
  • Chapter 12. The James Bulger Tragedy: Childish Innocence and the Construction of Guilt
  • Chapter 13. Cleveland, Butler-Sloss and Beyond: How are We to React to the Sexual Abuse of Children?
  • Chapter 14. In the Child's Best Interests? Reading the Children Act Critically
  • Chapter 15. Removing Rights from Adolescents
  • Chapter 16. Sterilizing the Mentally Handicapped
  • Chapter 17. Afterword
  • Index.