Archard, David.
Children : rights and childhood / David Archard. - Third edition. - ix, 265 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-261) and index.
1. John Locke's children -- Coming to reason -- Parental power -- pt. I. Childhood -- 2. The concept of childhood -- Article I (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child : CRC) -- The Ariès thesis -- "Modernity -- Social constructionism -- Concepts and conceptions -- Rousseau -- Conceptions of childhood -- 3. The modern conception of childhood -- Separateness -- The developmental model : childhood as a "stage" -- "Childhood" and "adulthood" -- The religious and literary ideal : childhood as "innocence" -- pt. II. Children's rights -- 4. Children's moral rights -- Moral and legal rights -- The will theory and the interest theory -- The scope and weight of moral rights -- Liberation or caretaking? -- Children's liberation -- The caretaker thesis -- 6. Arbitrariness and incompetence -- 7. The wrongs of children's rights -- Rights are all-or-nothing -- The impoverished world of rights -- Rights talk is not the way to speak of children -- 8. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- The importance of the Convention -- Rights of the child -- Best interests -- Hearing the child -- A central tension -- 9. Children under the law -- Legal rights -- Children at law -- Welfare versus justice -- Vicarious parental liability -- 10. Children's rights to vote and sexual choice -- pt. III. Children, parents, family and state -- 11. Bearing and rearing -- Parental duties and parental rights -- 12. Family and state -- The liberal standard -- The state -- The family -- 13. Parental rights to privacy and autonomy -- Individualism versus collectivism -- 14. Collectivism -- Plato's proposal -- The licensing of parents -- 15. The problem of child abuse -- The discovery of abuse -- Defining abuse -- Sexual abuse -- 16. Conclusion : a modest collectivist proposal.
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2014021435
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Children--History.
Children's rights--History.
Family policy--History.
Children.
Children's rights.
Family policy.
History.
HQ767.87 / .A73 2015
305.23
Children : rights and childhood / David Archard. - Third edition. - ix, 265 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-261) and index.
1. John Locke's children -- Coming to reason -- Parental power -- pt. I. Childhood -- 2. The concept of childhood -- Article I (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child : CRC) -- The Ariès thesis -- "Modernity -- Social constructionism -- Concepts and conceptions -- Rousseau -- Conceptions of childhood -- 3. The modern conception of childhood -- Separateness -- The developmental model : childhood as a "stage" -- "Childhood" and "adulthood" -- The religious and literary ideal : childhood as "innocence" -- pt. II. Children's rights -- 4. Children's moral rights -- Moral and legal rights -- The will theory and the interest theory -- The scope and weight of moral rights -- Liberation or caretaking? -- Children's liberation -- The caretaker thesis -- 6. Arbitrariness and incompetence -- 7. The wrongs of children's rights -- Rights are all-or-nothing -- The impoverished world of rights -- Rights talk is not the way to speak of children -- 8. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- The importance of the Convention -- Rights of the child -- Best interests -- Hearing the child -- A central tension -- 9. Children under the law -- Legal rights -- Children at law -- Welfare versus justice -- Vicarious parental liability -- 10. Children's rights to vote and sexual choice -- pt. III. Children, parents, family and state -- 11. Bearing and rearing -- Parental duties and parental rights -- 12. Family and state -- The liberal standard -- The state -- The family -- 13. Parental rights to privacy and autonomy -- Individualism versus collectivism -- 14. Collectivism -- Plato's proposal -- The licensing of parents -- 15. The problem of child abuse -- The discovery of abuse -- Defining abuse -- Sexual abuse -- 16. Conclusion : a modest collectivist proposal.
9780415724852 0415724856 9780415724869 0415724864
40024466788
2014021435
GBB4B6000 bnb GBB4D8838 bnb
016897791 Uk 016966322 Uk
Children--History.
Children's rights--History.
Family policy--History.
Children.
Children's rights.
Family policy.
History.
HQ767.87 / .A73 2015
305.23