Child rights : the movement, international law, and opposition / edited by Clark Butler.

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TextPublication details: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, 2012.Description: ix, 256 p. ; 23 cmContent type:

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9781557535498 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781612492056 (epdf)
9781612492049 (epub)
9781557535498
1612492053
1612492045

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Child Rights : The Movement, International Law, and OppositionDDC classification:

342.08772 BUT 23

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HQ789 .C42745 2012

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Part one. The movement and the UN Convention: Children's rights: an historical and conceptual analysis / Clark Butler; The case for the Convention on the Rights of the Child from the perspective of child psychology / Katherine Covell; Developmental considerations in teaching children's rights / Katherine Covell and Brian Howe; Introducing critical thinking and dialogue in preschool / Marie-France Daniel -- Part two. The opposition: nannies with blue berets: the UN Convention and the invasion of national and family sovereignty / Michael Farris; Educational freedom and human rights: exploring the tensions between the interests and rights of parents, children and the state / Perry Glanzer; Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Canada: a problem of political will / Brian Howe; Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the UK: a problem of political will / Claire Cassidy -- Part three. Children's rights in the developing world: motivating political responsibility for children in poor countries / Stephen L. Esquith; 'The Right Child": challenges and opportunities of child rights legislation in theory and practice / Krisjon Olson; Pragmatism, capabilities and children's rights in development ethics / Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht.

Summary: Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International Law, and Opposition explores the reasons for this resistance. It details the objections that have arisen to accepting this legally binding international instrument, which presupposes indivisible universal civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, and gives children special protection due to their vulnerability. The resistance ranges from isolationist attitudes toward international law and concerns over the fiscal impact of implementation, to the value attached to education in a faith tradition and fears about the academic deterioration of public education. The contributors to the book reveal the significant positive influence that the CRC has had, despite not being ratified, on subjects such as educational research, child psychology, development ethics, normative ethics, and anthropology. The book also explores the growing homeschooling trend, which is often evangelically led in the US, but which is at loggerheads with an equally growing social science-based movement of experts and ethicists pressing for greater autonomy and freedom of expression for children. Looking beyond the US, the book also addresses some of the practical obstacles that have emerged to implementing the CRC in both developed countries (for example, Canada and the United Kingdom) and in poorer nations. This book, polemical and yet balanced, helps the reader evaluate both positive and the negative implications of this influential piece of international legislation from a variety of ethical, legal, and social science perspectives.

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"Published in cooperation with the Human Rights Institute of the Center for Applied Ethics, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-245) and index.

Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International Law, and Opposition explores the reasons for this resistance. It details the objections that have arisen to accepting this legally binding international instrument, which presupposes indivisible universal civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, and gives children special protection due to their vulnerability. The resistance ranges from isolationist attitudes toward international law and concerns over the fiscal impact of implementation, to the value attached to education in a faith tradition and fears about the academic deterioration of public education. The contributors to the book reveal the significant positive influence that the CRC has had, despite not being ratified, on subjects such as educational research, child psychology, development ethics, normative ethics, and anthropology. The book also explores the growing homeschooling trend, which is often evangelically led in the US, but which is at loggerheads with an equally growing social science-based movement of experts and ethicists pressing for greater autonomy and freedom of expression for children. Looking beyond the US, the book also addresses some of the practical obstacles that have emerged to implementing the CRC in both developed countries (for example, Canada and the United Kingdom) and in poorer nations. This book, polemical and yet balanced, helps the reader evaluate both positive and the negative implications of this influential piece of international legislation from a variety of ethical, legal, and social science perspectives.

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