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Fortin's Children's Rights and the Developing Law 4th Edition

Fortin's Children's Rights and the Developing Law 4th Edition

Author: Rachel E. Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108446938

Previous Edition ISBN: 9780521698016
Published In: February 2024
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The notion that children constitute an important group of rights holders has gained increasing acceptance both domestically and internationally. Nevertheless, this rhetorical commitment to children's rights is not necessarily realised in practice. Now in its fourth edition, Fortin's Children's Rights and the Developing Law explores the extent to which law and policy in England promotes or undermines the rights of children. Fully revised and updated, this textbook uses current research on child development and welfare to reflect on the extent to which the law fulfils children's rights in a wide range of areas, including medical law, education and child poverty. These developments are measured again the domestic law and the UK's international obligations under, for example, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

1. Theoretical perspectives

2. International children's rights

3. Children's rights in domestic law

4. Children's rights within the family: parental rights and responsibilities

5. The child's right to identity

6. The child's right to respect for family life: the right to know and be brought up by parents

7. Parents' decisions and young children's health rights

8. The child's right to education: parental choice and plural values

9. Adolescent autonomy

10. Leaving home, rights to support and emancipation

11. Adolescent decision-making and health care

12. The child's right to participation in family proceedings