Children: Rights and Childhood

Archard, David

ISBN 10: 0415724856 / ISBN 13: 9780415724852

Published by Routledge, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Children: Rights and Childhood
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415724856
• ISBN 13: 9780415724852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

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 Ariès’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.

About the Author

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.