Children Rights & Childhood E2

by David Archard (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.41

  Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights. Drawing on a wide variety of sources from law and literature to politics and psychology, David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to a topic that has assumed increasing relevance since the book's first publication.
  
  Divided clearly into three parts, Children: Rights and Childhood covers key topics such as:

  • John Locke's writings on children
  • Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood
  • key texts on children's liberation and rights
  • a child's right to vote and to sexual choice
  • the rights of parents and the state over children
  • defining and understanding child abuse.

  The second edition has been fully revised and updated including a new preface, a new chapter on children's moral and legal rights, taking into account the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $4.34

  Whether children have rights is a debate that in recent years has spilled over into all areas of public life. It has never been more topical than now as the assumed rights of parents over their children is challenged on an almost daily basis. David Archard offers the first serious and sustained philosophical examination of children and their rights. Archard reviews the arguments for and against according children rights. He concludes that every child has at least the right to the best possible upbringing. Denying that parents have any significant rights over their children, he is able to challenge current thinking about the proper roles of state and family in rearing children. Crucially, he considers the problem of how to define and understand child abuse'. Children: Rights and childhood is an important book for all students and specialists interested in questions concerning children.