Title: Constitutional Adjudication of Children's Rights Claims in the United States Supreme Court, 1953-92
Abstract: Society has become greatly preoccupied with the issue of children's rights. While few debate the need to protect children from physical and mental harm and provide at least minimal support, there is debate over where to establish the limits of children's constitutional rights. Society's division into public and private realms and the government's traditional reluctance to interfere with the private sector has presented an obstacle to those who seek a broader interpretation of children's rights.1 The controversy over children's rights often centers on the degree to which the state should intervene to counter familial dysfunction or to ameliorate the effects of poverty. There is also debate over the degree of autonomy children should have from the state and their parents, that is, the extent to which children's rights should prevail over state and parental authority.2 Although the locus of decision making for children's rights issues has traditionally been at the state or local level, the status of children has increasingly become a subject of national concern, with solutions
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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