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:	9781136066580
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2013
Series:	Controversies in Constitutional Law
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	414
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Janet W. Steverson

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;