Hidden in Plain Sight (eBook)

The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate

Barbara Bennett Woodhouse (Autor)

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2010
384 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2965-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Hidden in Plain Sight tells the tragic untold story of children's rights in America. It asks why the United States today, alone among nations, rejects the most universally embraced human-rights document in history, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This book is a call to arms for America to again be a leader in human rights, and to join the rest of the civilized world in recognizing that the thirst for justice is not for adults alone. Barbara Bennett Woodhouse explores the meaning of children's rights throughout American history, interweaving the childhood stories of iconic figures such as Benjamin Franklin with those of children less known but no less courageous, like the heroic youngsters who marched for civil rights. How did America become a place where twelve-year-old Lionel Tate could be sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1999 death of a young playmate? In answering questions like this, Woodhouse challenges those who misguidedly believe that America's children already have more rights than they need, or that children's rights pose a threat to parental autonomy or family values. She reveals why fundamental human rights and principles of dignity, equality, privacy, protection, and voice are essential to a child's journey into adulthood, and why understanding rights for children leads to a better understanding of human rights for all. Compassionate, wise, and deeply moving, Hidden in Plain Sight will force an examination of our national resistance--and moral responsibility--to recognize children's rights.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Autor

Barbara Bennett Woodhouse is the L.Q.C. Lamar Professor of Law and codirector of the Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic at Emory Law School. She is also the David H. Levin Chair Emeritus in Family Law at the University of Florida.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.1.2010
• Reihe/Serie: The Public Square
• Reihe/Serie: The Public Square
• Zusatzinfo: 11 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • adolescence • Adult • Amateur • americans • Anne Frank • Anne Sullivan • anonymity • attachment disorder • Censorship • Child Abuse • Children's rights • Civil disobedience • closing argument • Conduct Disorder • Conspiracy of silence (expression) • Dark Shell • Denunciation • Desegregation busing • Disability • distrust • Down syndrome • Dred Scott • Exclusion • Expectation of privacy • Failure of imagination • false accusation • false imprisonment • False statement • family secret • felony • foster care • freedom of speech • Freedom suit • From Anna • Hidden Children • Hide in Plain Sight • hostility • humiliation • Illegal entry • Illegal Immigration • impunity • Independent contractor • independent woman • infanticide • inferiority complex • invisible Hand • isolationism • Juvenile Court • Least Restrictive Environment • Little Rock Nine • loneliness • Low Birth Weight • miscegenation • Muteness • Neglect • Nonperson • Nonviolence • obscenity • One-Child Policy • Only Child • Oppression • orphanage • Passive smoking • Persecution • pessimism • Plyler v. Doe • Poverty • privacy • Private Sphere • Prohibition • Prostitution • Pseudonym • Racism • ragged dick • Random House • Recidivism • Refugee • respite care • Right to Privacy • rudeness • Safe-space • Self-Incrimination • self-made man • Self-reliance • Senseless Violence • separate spheres • Sexism • Shame • Sheyann Webb • silence dogood • single parent • Single room occupancy • Slavery • Slum • The Hidden Child • tomboy • To the Contrary • V. • vulnerability
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2965-8 / 1400829658
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2965-1 / 9781400829651