Freedom's orphans
Subtitle: contemporary liberalism and the fate of American children
By: David L. Tubbs.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780691134703
Description: Argues that the expansion of rights for adults has come at a high and generally unnoticed cost. In championing new "lifestyle" freedoms, liberal theorists and jurists have ignored, forgotten, or discounted the competing interests of children. Tubbs reviews important currents of liberal thought, including the ideas of Isaiah Berlin, Ronald Dworkin, and Susan Moller Okin. He also analyzes three key developments in American civil liberties: the emergence of the "right to privacy" in sexual and reproductive matters; the abandonment of the traditional standard for obscenity prosecutions; and the gradual acceptance of the doctrine of "strict separation" between religion and public life. [from publisher description].