The relationship rights of children / James G. Dwyer
- Bib ID:
- 8072010
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dwyer, James G., 1961-, author
- Description:
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006
- ©2006
- xii, 364 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780521862240 (hardback)
- 0521862248 (hardback)
- Series:
- Robert Darby collection.
- Summary:
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"This book presents the first sustained theoretical analysis of what rights children should possess in connection with state decision making about their personal relationships, including legislative and judicial decisions in the areas of paternity, adoption, custody and visitation, termination of parental rights, and grandparent visitation. It concludes that the law should ascribe to children rights equivalent (though not identical) to those adults enjoy, and this would require substantial changes in the way the legal system treats children, including a reformation of the rules for establishing legal parent-child relationships at birth and of the rules for deciding whether to end a parent-child relationship."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Why rights for children?
- 2. The existing relationship rights of children
- 3. Paradigmatic relationship rights
- 4. Why adults have the relationship rights they do
- 5. Extending the theoretical underpinnings of relationship rights to children
- 6. Rebutting defenses of the status quo
- 7. Implementing children's moral rights in law
- 8. Applications
- App. The conceptual possibility of children having rights.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-352) and index.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Rights of children.
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2006
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