Emancipation
By: Noël Merino, book editor
Series: Teen rights and freedoms
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9780737769999
Subjects: Minors; Juvenile literature; Teenagers; Legal status, laws; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Science / General; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Adolescence; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism
Description: "This timely new series examines a broad range of perceived, practical, or actual legal rights and freedoms impacting the daily lives of teens. Each volume focuses on a different right or freedom. Material is drawn from primary and secondary sources. Many volumes cover rights guaranteed under the Bill of Rights and how these rights are interpreted and protected in regards to minors"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-132) and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolving legal rights of children have always been dependent on age / Michael Grossberg; title: The age of majority must be the same for males and females : the Supreme Court's decision / Harry Blackmun; title: The requirements for minor emancipation vary by state / Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law; title: Want to get emancipated from your parents? / Eliza Shapiro; title: My father offered me emancipation, but i refused it : personal narrative / Alyssa Bereznaksession; title: The emancipation of foster care youth is far from ideal / Alfreda P. Iglehart and Rosina M. Becerra; title: I aged out of the foster care system and became homeless : personal narrative / LaTasha C. Watts; title: A married, independent minor can be considered legally emancipated : the Washington State Supreme Court's decision / Lloyd W. Shorett.; title: There is a mature minor exception to parental consent in medical decisions / The Tennessee State Supreme Court's decision / Frank Drowota; title: Medical emancipation statutes forbid mandatory parental involvement for student medical care : the California attorney general's opinion / Bill Lockyer and Susan Duncan Lee; title: Old enough to vote, old enough to smoke? / Jennifer Lai; title: There is no reason to set the drinking age later than the age of majority / Laurence M. Vance; title: There is good reason for allowing emancipation prior to legal drinking / Christopher Carpenter and Carlos Dobkin; title: The mind-booty problem : rethinking the age of sexual consent / William Saletan; title: For many college students, home means both the place they live and the place they left   / Timothy L. Hulsey.