Title: The missing child in liberal theory : towards a covenant theory of family, community, welfare, and the civic state /
Authors: O'Neill, John, 1933-; Laidlaw Foundation.
Publisher: Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Laidlaw Foundation,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Children Government policy.; Children Government policy Canada.; Child welfare; Child welfare Canada; Family policy.; Family policy Canada.
Contents: 1. A Duty-free Society? Covenant versus Market Concept of Institutions. Covenant versus Market Life Chances. Civic Sustainability versus Global Risk. Canada's Civic Covenant -- 2. Children in the State of Nature: The Missing Link in Liberal Theory. The Game of Inequality. The Politics of Child Needs. The Risky Matrix -- 3. Reconceiving Family Foundations: Pro-Creation or Co-Creation? Family Covenant or Sexual Contract? The New Foundlings. Child Rights versus Child Covenant. Who Cares? -- 4. The Covenant of Care. Covenant and Code in Medical Care. Civic Vigilance and Urbanity -- 5. Three Reciprocity Lessons. A Covenant Critique of Rawls on Future Justice. Lesson One: The Norm of Reciprocity. Lesson Two: No Moral Strangers. Lesson Three: The Norm of Reciprocity within and between Generations -- 6. Life Chances within a Civic Commons. Children for Sale. Youth versus Elders. The Covenant of Taxation. Citizenship in the Civic State. The Canadian Commons.