Children Rights and Childhood [Hardcover]

Children: Rights and Childhoodis widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of childrens rights. David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to a topic that has assumed increasing relevance since the books
rst publication. Divided clearly into three parts, it covers key topics such as:

• John Lockes writings on children
• Philippe Ari?ss Centuries of Childhood
• childrens moral and legal rights
• a childs right to vote and to sexual choice
• parental rights to privacy and autonomy
• defining and understanding child abuse.

The third edition has been fully revised and updated throughout with a new chapter providing an in-depth analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and Part 2 has been restructured to move the reader from general theoretical considerations of childrens rights through to practical issues. This volume is ideal reading for advanced studies across Philosophy, Social Work, Law, Childhood Studies, Politics, and Social Policy.

1. John Lockes children  Part 1: Childhood  2. The concept of childhood  3. The modern conception of childhood  Part 2:Childrens rights   4. Childrens moral rights  5. Liberation or caretaking?  6. Arbitrariness and incompetence  7. The wrongs of childrens rights  8. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child  9. Children under the law  10. Childrens 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&nbspl$