David Archard (UK Queen's University Belfast)

Children

Rights and Childhood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the ?rst book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of childrenâ s rights. This fully revised and updated edition is ideal reading for advanced studies across Philosophy, Social Work, Law, Childhood Studies, Politics, and Social Policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9780415724869
• ISBN-10: 0415724864
• Artikelnr.: 41218031

Autorenporträt

David Archard is Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He is author of Sexual Consent and The Family: A Liberal Defence; and co-editor of The Moral and Political Status of Children and Procreation and Parenthood: The Ethics of Bearing and Rearing Children.

Inhaltsangabe

1. John Locke's children Part 1: Childhood 2. The concept of childhood 3.
The modern conception of childhood Part 2: Children's rights 4. Children's
moral rights 5. Liberation or caretaking? 6. Arbitrariness 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 3: 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. Index