By Birth or Consent (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
by Holly Brewer
In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status. Thus elite children could designate property or serve in Parliament, while children of the poorer sort might be forced to sign labor contracts or be hanged for arson or picking pockets. By the late eighteenth century, however, English and American law began to emphasize contractual relations based on informed consent rather than on birth status. In By Birth or Consent, Holly Brewer...
July 2019 - June 2020 Calendar (2019-2020 Weekly Planner, #4)
by Anika J Gibson
Child rights is an important area of scholarship the world over and is gaining great significance as an area of research in the first decade of 21st century. Protection of child rights is now considered an integral part of human rights. The recent years have witnessed a shift in the orientation and perspective of child rights. The book addresses the issue of child rights from an interdisciplinary perspective and covers a wide gamut of issues such as right to family environment, right to parental...
Drawing on interviews with informants from a diverse range of 16 countries, including the US, the UK, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Peru, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Nigeria, this book examines how child support systems often fail to transfer payments from separated fathers to mothers and their children. It lays out how these systems are structured in ways that render them ineffective, while positioning women as responsible for their failures. The book charts the demise of child support as a f...
Examining children's rights from a global perspective, Mary John considers how children experience power, being powerful and the transformation of power relationships. She explores this issue objectively yet compassionately, comparing the situation of children to that of powerless minority groups and asking why children are rarely included in debates on social accountability, freedom and autonomy. Examining children's rights in relation to current thinking about the nature of power, the role of...
This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage. In international campaigns against child marriage, there is a puzzle of agency: While international human rights institutions celebrate girls' exercise of their agency not to marry, they do not recognize their agency to marry. Child marriage, usually defined as 'any formal marriage or informal union where one or both of the parties are under 18 years of age', is normally considered as forced - which is to say that it is assu...
Don't let your own reaction to stress negatively affect the children in your care! With new evidence indicating that undesirable stress is likely to have its roots in childhood, Childhood Stress in Contemporary Society is a much-needed resource for anyone who works with children. An authority in the field of stress education, Dr. James Humphrey offers an easy-to-read text on what stress is, how it affects children as opposed to adults, and how to take back control when stress becomes overwhel...
A Family Resource Guide on International Parental Kidnapping
by U S Department of Justice
Turning Eighteen and the Law: A Complete Guide to your New Rights and Responsibilities
by Fredric J. Friedberg
From the author of Surviving Your Deposition, a new handbook that explains the rights and responsibilities of an eighteen-year old. Ideal for teens, parents, and educators. Systematically reviews the new legal environment these teenagers face in the United States. Complete with illustrations and cautionary busted anecdotes that present relevant legal topics such as shoplifting, drug use, contracts, employment, automobiles, the Internet, and more. Read it now and avoid compromising situations.
Die aufgrund gravierender Gesetzesanderungen bereits in kurzer Zeit fallig gewordene Neuauflage bringt das Werk wieder auf den aktuellen Stand. In der Neuauflage wurden bereits berucksichtigt: - das Gesetz zur Klarung der Vaterschaft unabhangig vom Anfechtungsverfahren vom 26. Marz 2008; - das Gesetz zur Erganzung des Rechts zur Anfechtung der Vaterschaft vom 13. Marz 2008 - und das Gesetz zur Erleichterung familiengerichtlicher Massnahmen bei Gefahrdung des Kindeswohls vom 4. Juli 2008. Nebe...
International Perspectives on Child Victimisation
by Julia Davidson and Christopher Hamerton
International Perspectives on Child Victimisation offers a comprehensive overview of the established themes and emergent debates relating to the abuse and victimization of children. Highlighting key areas of global concern, and illustrated with detailed case studies of important developments, Julia Davidson and Christopher Hamerton address child abuse, child poverty, child exploitation, child prostitution, and child imprisonment within the context of children's rights, and international legal an...
10 years ago, amateur photographer and school bus driver Cynthia Stewart was arrested for trying to develop photographs of her eight-year-old daughter, Nora - in two of which she was in the shower. This heart wrenching story brilliantly probes the many questions raised about when a photograph of a naked child crosses the line from innocent family photographs to child pornography. Poet Lynn Powell was a neighbour of Cynthia's and beautifully relays the traumatic events that threatened an ordinary...
The Battle for Children links two major areas of historical inquiry: crime and delinquency with war and social change. In a study based on impressive archival research, Sarah Fishman reveals the impact of the Vichy regime on one of history's most silent groups-children-and offers enlightening new information about the Vichy administration.Fishman examines how French children experienced the events of war and the German occupation, demonstrating that economic deprivation, not family dislocation,...
Families Under Construction (Aspen Casebook)
by Susan Frelich Appleton and D. Kelly Weisberg
In the consciousness of politicians, professionals and the public, children and young people loom increasingly large as a challenge to be faced. This problematic image includes not only the inevitable and traditional difficulties faced by the young in negotiating a role in society, but also an increasing tendency for children to be problematized, even vilified, and for state intervention in their lives to reflect this trend. Indeed, the increasing scale and scope of central and local government...
This text is excellent and very timely. Philip Michael Stahl′s second volume is the perfect supplement to his Conducting Child Custody Evaluations because it deals with specific issues of great concern to evaluators: parental alienation, allegations of sexual abuse, domestic violence, move-away situations, and high conflict families. The chapter dealing with child considerations is also very well done. His discussion of developmental considerations is clear and supported by the latest research i...
Drawing on 25 years of frontline experience, Chicago attorney Jeffery Leving, a nationally acclaimed mens rights crusader, offers disenfranchised fathers true hope and meaningful counsel in this information-packed handbook, guaranteed to save thousands of dollars and years of anguish. Detailed and comprehensive, this eminently practical book takes fathers through every twist and turn of the legal system and covers topics such as how to protect relationships with children as a breakup occurs; how...
The State of the World's Children 2010: Special Edition
On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children's Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World's Children to examining the Convention's evolution, progre...