Children : rights and childhood / David Archard.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Routledge 2014Edition: Third editionDescription: ix, 265 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415724869 (pbk.) :
- 9780415724869
- 305.23 ARC
- HQ767.87 .A73 2015
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Previous edition: 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.John Locke\'s children -- Part I.Childhood -- 2.The concept of childhood -- 3.The modern conception of childhood -- Part II.Children\'s rights -- 4.Children\'s moral rights -- 5.Liberation or caretaking -- 6.Arbitratiness and incompetence -- 7.The wrongs of children\'s rights -- 8.The United NATIONS Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 9.Children under the law -- 10.Children\'s rights to vote and sexual choice -- Part III.Children, parents, family and state -- 11.Bearing and rearing -- 12.Family and state -- 13.Parental rights to privacy and autonomy -- 14.Collectivism -- 15.The problem of child abuse -- 16.Conclusion: a modest collectivist proposal.
Widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of the rights of children. David Archard has updated & expanded the text, with new material on the moral & legal rights of children, & how international law has changed in relation to children.