Child vs. State: Children and the Law

by Janet W. Steverson (Editor)

Overview

This is the third volume in the three volume collection Children and the Law . Volume three, Child v.s. State , explores the rights of children against the state. Areas treated in this volume include freedom of speech, (the restriction of newspapers, music, arm-bands, etc.) the right of a minor to refuse medical treatment, and a minor's right to contraception and abortion with ad without parental consent. This volume also includes the rights of minors to separate from their legal parents; the rights of children to know their biological parents in the case of adoption; and the rights of children resisting repatriation to relatives outside the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415512800
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/13/2011
Series:	Controversies in Constitutional Law
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1; JUVENILENESS: A SINGLE-EDGED CONSTITUTIONAL SWORD, William S.Geimer; Chapter 2 Acknowledging the Hypocrisy: Granting Minors the Right to Choose Their Medical Treatment; Chapter 3 CAREY, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, ET AL. v. POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ET AL.; Chapter 4 Abortion Rights of Minors, Parental Consent, and Parental Notification, CarolynPuzella; Chapter 5 SEEKING SOLOMON'S WISDOM: JUDICIAL BYPASS OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN A MINOR'S ABORTION DECISION, Teresa StantonCollett; Chapter 6 THE PREGNANT CHILD'S RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION, Katheryn D.Katz; Chapter 7 WHY CRIMINALIZE CHILDREN? LOOKING BEYOND THE EXPRESS POLICIES DRIVING JUVENILE CURFEW LEGISLATION, Deirdre E.Norton; Chapter 8; Chapter 9 CURFEW LAWS, FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, AND THE RIGHTS OF JUVENILES; Chapter 10 Constitutional Law: Hutchins v. District of Columbia: The Constitutional Dilemma over Juvenile Curfews; Acknowledgments;