Children: Rights and Childhood

ISBN-13: 9780415724852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 266 str.

David Archard

Opis

Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights. 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, it covers key topics such as:

• John Locke's writings on children
• Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood
• children's moral and legal rights
• a child's 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 children's rights through to practical issues. This volume is ideal reading for advanced studies across Philosophy, Social Work, Law, Childhood Studies, Politics, and Social Policy.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.