Children's Human Rights in the USA
Yvonne Vissing
Springer International Publishing 
Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Politische Soziologie
Beschreibung
This book critically examines why a human rights framework would improve the wellbeing and status of young people. It explores children’s rights to provision, protection, and participation from human rights and clinical sociological perspectives, and from historical to contemporary events. It discusses how different ideologies have shaped the way we view children and their place in society, and how, despite the rhetoric of children's protection, people under 18 years of age experience more poverty, violence, and oppression than other group in society. The book points to the fact that the USA is the only member of the United Nations not to ratify a children’s human rights treaty; and the impact of this decision finds US children less healthy and less safe than children in other developed countries. It shows how a rights-respecting framework could be created to improve the lives of our youngest citizens – and the future of democracy.
Kundenbewertungen
Social Movement, Adultification of Childhood, Intergenerationality and Intersectionality, Children as a Minority Group, Human Rights, Youth Participation, Paradigm Change, Clinical Sociology, Social Frameworks, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Parent Rights, Childism, Child and Youth Rights, Children as Property