| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Contents |
1. John Locke's children. Coming to reason ; Parental power ; Conclusion -- Part I. Childhood. 2. The concept of childhood. Article I ; The Ariès thesis ; A note on "Modernity ; A note on social constructionism ; Concepts and conceptions ; A note on 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." |
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Part 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. Arbitrariness ; 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. The right to vote ; The right to sexual choice |
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Part III. Children, parents, family and state. 11. Bearing and rearing. A right to rear ; I bear therefore I rear ; 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 ; Privacy ; Autonomy ; 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 |
| Summary |
Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights. 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, it covers key topics such as: John Locke's writings on childrenPhilippe Ariès's Centuries of Childhoodchildren's moral and legal rightsa child's right to vote and to sexual choiceparental rights to privacy and autonomydefining and understanding child abuse. The third edition has been fully |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed January 14, 2015) |
| Subject |
Children -- History
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Children's rights -- History
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Family policy -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
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Children.
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Children's rights.
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Barns rättigheter -- historia.
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Familjer.
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Family policy.
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Barn.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317580881 |
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1317580885 |
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9781315740676 |
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1315740672 |
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