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Puzzling Over Children's Rights, John Coons, Robert Mnookin, Stephen Sugarman
Puzzling Over Children's Rights, John Coons, Robert Mnookin, Stephen Sugarman
John Coons
This Article Discusses the Movement Started in The 1960's to Improve Children's Legal Rights and How They are Treated Under the Law. The Authors Explore the Intellectual Foundations of Our Conventions About Children and Share Some of The Puzzles that They Have Identified. They Discuss When Childhood Begins and Ends, Whether Children are Worse off or Better off Now Than in The Past, and Whether the Purpose of Childhood is Only a Concern of The Present or Is It Preparation for Future Adulthood. They Discuss Children's Entitlements to The Goods of The World in Relation to Their Parents, Other Adults, …
Between Home And School, Laura Rosenbury
Between Home And School, Laura Rosenbury
Laura A. Rosenbury
This article challenges family law's traditional paradigm for allocating authority between parents, children and the state. Pursuant to that paradigm, parents enjoy almost complete authority over their children while at home; the state may require children to attend school and may regulate school curricula; and children must submit to the authority of either their parents or teachers. This settled equilibrium ignores a fundamental reality: children are not confined to home and school. Much of childhood takes place in spaces between home and school, at playgrounds, churches, sporting fields, music rooms and after-school clubs. Family law has been virtually silent about …