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Author Purdy, Laura Martha.

Title In their best interest? : the case against equal rights for children / Laura M. Purdy
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992

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 W'BOOL  305.23 Pur/Itb  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Children's interests -- Moral issues -- Human development -- Liberated children -- Schooling and work -- Liberationist responses
Summary From the Publisher: From where they live and which school they attend to whether they may work, children's decisions are controlled by parents and guardians. Advocates of equal rights for children have, however, offered both empirical evidence and ethical arguments against the popular assumption that children are incompetent to exercise the same freedoms as adults
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) and index
Subject Child development.
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Children's rights.
Child Development.
LC no. 91055550
ISBN 0801426626 (alk. paper)
0801499569 (paperback: alk. paper)