What's Wrong with Children's Rights

✍ Scribed by Martin Guggenheim

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From foster care to adoption to visitation rights and beyond, Guggenheim offers an analysis of the most significant debates in the children’s rights movement. He argues that “children's rights” can serve as a screen for the interests of adults, who may have more to gain than the children for whom they claim to speak.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
1. A Brief History of Children’s Rights in the United States
2. The Rights of Parents
3. Getting and Losing Parental Rights: The “Baby Jessica” Case
4. Who Gets to Be the Parent? The Right to Relationships with Someone Else’s Children
5. Divorce, Custody, and Visitation
6. Child Protection, Foster Care, and Termination of Parental Rights
7. Children’s Rights that Serve Adults’ Needs: The Case of Adolescents’ Right to Abortion
8. How Children’s Rights Impact Family Law and Juvenile Rights
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index