Child vs. State : Children and the Law

ISBN-13: 9780415938068 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 414 str.

Janet W. Steverson

Opis

This collection of facsimile reprints brings together essays in the field of American law relating to the controversial area of children's rights, parents' rights, and state's obligations toward children. Articles discuss the major rulings concerning an array of hotly debated issues. Volume three explores the rights of children against the state. Areas treated include freedom of speech, the right of a minor to refuse medical treatment and a minor's right to contraception and abortion with and without parental consent, the rights of minors to separate from their legal parents, the rights of children to know their biological parents in the case of adoption, the rights of children resisting repatriation to relatives outside the United States.

Spis treści

Chapter 1; JUVENILENESS: A SINGLE-EDGED CONSTITUTIONAL SWORD, William S.Geimer; Chapter 2 Acknowledging the Hypocrisy: Granting Minors the Right to Choose Their Medical Treatment; Chapter 3 CAREY, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, ET AL. v. POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ET AL.; Chapter 4 Abortion Rights of Minors, Parental Consent, and Parental Notification, CarolynPuzella; Chapter 5 SEEKING SOLOMON'S WISDOM: JUDICIAL BYPASS OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN A MINOR'S ABORTION DECISION, Teresa StantonCollett; Chapter 6 THE PREGNANT CHILD'S RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION, Katheryn D.Katz; Chapter 7 WHY CRIMINALIZE CHILDREN? LOOKING BEYOND THE EXPRESS POLICIES DRIVING JUVENILE CURFEW LEGISLATION, Deirdre E.Norton; Chapter 8; Chapter 9 CURFEW LAWS, FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, AND THE RIGHTS OF JUVENILES; Chapter 10 Constitutional Law: Hutchins v. District of Columbia: The Constitutional Dilemma over Juvenile Curfews; Acknowledgments;

O autorze

Janet W. Steverson