Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Michael Freeman -- Preface / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 1 The Moral Status of Children / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 2 Taking Children’s Rights More Seriously / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 3 Laws, Conventions and Rights / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 4 Beyond Conventions—Towards Empowerment / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 5 The Limits of Children’s Rights / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 6 English Law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 7 Children’s Rights and Cultural Pluralism / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 8 Contact with Absent Parents: An Emergent Child Right / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 9 Do Children Have the Right Not to Be Born? / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 10 The Rights of the Artificially Procreated Child / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 11 Can Children Divorce their Parents? / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 12 The James Bulger Tragedy: Childish Innocence and the Construction of Guilt / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 13 Cleveland, Butler-Sloss and Beyond—How are We to React to the Sexual Abuse of Children? / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 14 In the Child’s Best Interests? Reading the Children Act Critically / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 15 Removing Rights from Adolescents / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 16 Sterilizing the Mentally Handicapped / Michael Freeman -- Chapter 17 Afterword / Michael Freeman -- Index / Michael Freeman.

With the passing of the UN Convention in 1989 children's rights have been placed firmly on the political agenda. This book explores a variety of children's rights issues from the Convention and beyond. It examines the moral foundations of children's rights issues from the Convention and beyond, and offers insights into children's rights issues both old and new. Amongst the subjects covered are the history of children's rights, empowerment, cultural pluralism, sexual abuse, contact as a child's right, the reproduction revolution and the child's right to identity, and children's rights in the context of English law. This is a book which those interested in children, children's issues and children's rights will find stimulating and rewarding. The author is a Professor of English Law at University College London, a barrister and the author of thirty books including, The Rights and The Wrongs of Children, Children's Rights: A Comparative Perspective, Children, Their Families and The Law and Violence In the Home: A Socio-Legal Study . He is the founding co-editor of the International Journal of Children's Rights, the editor of Current Legal Problems and a former editor of the Annual Survey of Family Law. A prominent advocate of children's rights for over 20 years, he has lectured widely on the subject.

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