The law governing children is complex, sometimes appearing almost incoherent. The
relatively simple framework established in the Progressive Era, in which parents had primary …

Childhood, the category that holds, defines, and governs children, is a social construct that is
contingent upon time and place.'There is some universality in the vulnerability and …

American lawmakers have had relatively clear images of childhood and adulthood-images
that fit with our conventional notions. Children are innocent beings, who are dependent …

As approvals of international human rights treaties go, this is such blinding speed that the
CRC's widespread acceptance seems surprisingly uncritical—especially for a convention …

I AM a product of the 1960s. The various ways in which that decade has influenced my life
are unworthy of an entire book. But in one particular sense the social upheavals of that …

Policies and decisions concerning children ultimately derive from conceptions of childhood.
Those who make such decisions must premise their choices on ideas about children's …

This Commentary is a fully up-to-date, solid legal work on children's rights. It offers a
contemporary legal perspective on the inherently interdisciplinary field of children's rights. It …

Children are an anomaly in the liberal legal order. Conceptualizations that work in other
areas of human rights break down in the context of children. Children defy the conventional …

Children's rights have received increasing attention by legal scholars and philosophers in
Western societies over the last several decades (Bishop, 1980; Dwyer, 1994; Farson, 1974; …

Children are a problem. Helpless at birth, long in maturing, prohibited by biology, custom,
and law from providing for themselves, they need protection, nurturance, and education for a …