Child Vs. State: Children and the Law, Volume 3

Front Cover
Janet W. Steverson
Routledge, Dec 13, 2011 - Law - 414 pages
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.

Other editions - View all

Bibliographic information