What's wrong with children's rights? / Martin Guggenheim.

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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Children -- United States -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Children's rights.

1. A brief history of children's rights in the United States

2. The rights of parents

3. Getting and losing parental right: the Baby Jessica case

4. Who gets to be the parent? The right to relationships with someone else's children

5. Divorce, custody, and visitation

6. Child protection, foster care, and termination of parental rights

7. Children's rights that serve adults' needs: the case of adolescents' right to abortion

8. How children's rights impact family law and juvenile rights.

This book offers an analysis of the most significant debates in the children's rights movement, and argues that the interests of children should not be considered in isolation from the interests of their parents and of society as a whole.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Originally published: 2005.

9780674025462

xiii, 306 p. ; 21 cm