What Is Right for Children?

Contents: Introduction: what is right for children?, Martha Albertson Fineman; Part I Children's Rights as Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: empowering parents to protect their children's rights, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse and Kathryn A. Johnson; Child, family, state and gender equality in religious stances and human rights instruments: a preliminary comparison, Linda C. McClain; Rhetoric, religion and human rights: 'save the children!', Barbara Stark; Feminist fundamentalism on the frontier between government and family responsibility for children, Mary Ann Case. Part II Children in the United States: the Legal Context: Using international human rights law in US courts: lessons from the campaign against the juvenile death penalty, Linda M. Keller; The lesser culpability of the juvenile offender: trial in adult criminal court, incarceration with adults, and excessive sanctions, Bernadine Dohrn; Parental rights doctrine: creating and maintaining maternal value, Annette R. Appell; Placing children in context: parents, foster care, and poverty, Naomi Cahn; Expanding the parent-child-state triangle in public family law: the role of private providers, Susan Vivian Mangold; Advocating for children's rights in a lawless nation: articulating rights for foster children, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse and Brooke Hardy; A proposal for collaborative enforcement of a federal right to education, Kimberley Jenkins Robinson; Taking children's interests seriously, Martha Albertson Fineman. Part III Comparisons: Children Within the Context of Human Rights: Introduction; The child's right to religious freedom in international law: the search for meaning, Ursula Kilkelly; Clashing rights and welfare: a return to a rights discourse in family law in the UK?, Shazia Choudhry; Accommodating children's religious expression in public schools: a comparative analysis of the veil and other symbols in Western democracies, Catherine J. Ross; Children, education, and rights in a society divided by religion: the perspectives of children and young people, Laura Lundy; Children, international human rights, and the politics of belonging, Alice Hearst; The right of children to be loved, S. Matthew Liao; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.