Research Catalog

Title

Children's rights in America : U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child compared with United States law / edited by Cynthia Price Cohen, Howard A. Davidson ; American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law.

Publication

[Chicago, Ill.] : The Association, c1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• ABA Center on Children and the Law.
• Davidson, Howard A.
• Price Cohen, Cynthia.

Description

xxxiii, 344 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Children > Legal status, laws, etc
• Children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The best interests of the child / Jane Ellis -- The child's evolving capacities / James Garbarino -- A guide to linguistic interpretation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child / Cynthia Price Cohen -- Federal-State implications of the Convention / Lawrence L. Stentzel, II -- The child, parents and the State / John E.B. Myers -- Anti-discrimination and identity rights of the child / Daniel L. Skoler -- Civil rights of the child / Robert E. Shepherd, Jr. -- The child's right to be heard and represented / Howard A. Davidson -- Educating the child for a productive life / Susan H. Bitensky -- Assuring an adequate standard of living for the child / James Weill -- Assuring adequate health and rehabilitative care for the child / Kay A. Johnson, Molly McNulty -- Promoting the dignity of the child through mental health services / Gary B. Melton -- The child's rights in adoption and foster care / Joan Heifetz Hollinger, Alice Bussiere -- The child's access to diverse intellectual, artistic and recreational resources / Martin Guggenheim -- Preventing exploitation of the child / James B. Boskey -- Rights of the child charged with violating the law / Merril Sobie -- Involvement of the child in armed conflict / Thomas A. Johnson -- Afterword / Sanford N. Katz.

ISBN

0897076419 :

LCCN

^^^91135138^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library