Children: Rights and Childhood (Ideas)

Children: Rights and Childhood (Ideas)
by David Archard

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Review & Description

Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights. Drawing on a wide variety of sources from law and literature to politics and psychology, 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, Children: Rights and Childhood covers key topics such as:

• John Locke's writings on children
• Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood
• key texts on children's liberation and rights
• a child's right to vote and to sexual choice
• the rights of parents and the state over children
• defining and understanding child abuse.

The second edition has been fully revised and updated including a new preface, a new chapter on children's moral and legal rights, taking into account the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1730372 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .81" h x 6.16" w x 9.10" l, .93 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages