1st Edition

Children's Right to Freedom, Care and Enlightenment

By Bertram Bandman Copyright 1999
    398 Pages
    by Routledge

    398 Pages
    by Routledge

    Professor Bandman presents a philosophical argument in answer to the question, How do we justifiably bring up our children? Bandman suggests that the status of children's rights in collusion with the method by which children are raised result in the strength and breadth of our rights as adults. This is an eminently worthwhile study, involving the interests of younger and older people alike, engaging us all in reflective examination of issues right at our doorsteps.

    Part 1 Toward a Justification of Adults' and Children's Rights; Chapter 1 Between Protectionism and Liberationism—The Functions and Limits of Children's Rights; Chapter 2 The Functions, Limits, and Circumstances of Children's Rights; Chapter 3 The Relation Between Rights and Claims; Chapter 4 Definitions, Conditions, Criticisms, and Defenses; Part 2 The Development of Children's Rights; Chapter 5 Limits to Arguments Against Children's Rights; Chapter 6 The Sorting and Grading of Children's Rights; Chapter 7 The Development of Children's Moral and Intellectual Rights; Part 3 The Rights Children Have; Chapter 8 Children's Rights in the Family, School, and Society; Chapter 9 Children's Rights to Think and to Know; Chapter 10 TEN Children's Rights to Inquire and to Infer; Chapter 11 Children's Rights to Believe and to Doubt—The Formation of Beliefs; Chapter 12 Children's Rights to Believe and to Doubt—The Justification of Beliefs; Chapter 13 Limits to the Right to Do Wrong; Conclusion: Children's Rights and the Difference Between Right and WrongBibliography; INDEX;

    Biography

    Bertram Bandman