What is right for children?
Subtitle: the competing paradigms of religion and human rights
By: [edited] by Martha Albertson Fineman and Karen Worthington.
Contributors: Fineman, Martha; Worthington, Karen.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754674191
Subjects: Freedom of religion -- United States; Children's rights -- United States -- Religious aspects; Parent and child (Law) -- United States; International and municipal law -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child : empowering parents to protect their children's rights / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse & Kathryn A. Johnson; title: Child, family, and state in religious stances and human rights instruments : a preliminary comparison / Linda McClain; title: Rhetoric, religion & human rights: save the children! / Barbara Stark; title: Feminist fundamentalism on the frontier between government and family responsibility for children / Mary Ann Case; title: Using international human rights law in US courts : lessons from the campaign against the juvenile death penalty / Linda Keller; title: The lesser culpability of the juvenile offender : trial in adult criminal court, incarceration with adults, and excessive sanctions / Bernardine Dohrn; title: Parental rights doctrine : creating & maintaining maternal value / Annette Appell; title: Children in context : parents, foster care, & poverty / Naomi Cahn; title: Expanding the parent-child-state triangle in public family law : the role of private providers / Susan Vivian Mangold; title: Advocating for children's rights in a lawless nation : articulating rights for foster children / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse & Brooke Hardy; title: A proposal for collaborative enforcement of a federal right to education / Kimberly Jenkins Robinson; title: Taking children's interests seriously / Martha Albertson Fineman; title: The child's right to religious freedom in international law : time to reform the right that never was / Ursula Kilkelly; title: School children and religious expression : a comparative treatment of the veil and other religious symbols in western democracies / Catherine Ross; title: Children, education, and rights in a society divided by religion : the perspectives of children & young people / Laura Lundy; title: Children, international human rights, & the politics of belonging / Alice Hearst; title: The right of children to be loved / S. Matthew Liao.