Screen LibraryA question of commitment : the status of children in Canada /
"This book is a collection of essays in which various authors examine the extent to which children's rights have been incorporated into their respective areas of Canadian policy and law. The authors deduce, from what is thereby revealed about the status of children in this country, that mu...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Waterloo, Ontario : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Studies in childhood and family in Canada
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"This book is a collection of essays in which various authors examine the extent to which children's rights have been incorporated into their respective areas of Canadian policy and law. The authors deduce, from what is thereby revealed about the status of children in this country, that much remains to be done before children achieve full recognition and citizenship."-- In this second edition of A question of Commitment, Thomas Waldock collects new essays that investigate the extent to which Canada has fulfilled its obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) to treat children as rights-bearing citizens and to respect their dignity as fully human persons. The authors assess the extent to which children's rights have been incorporated into their respective areas of policy and law twenty years after the adoption of the convention and draw conclusions about what the situation reveals about the status of children in Canada. The three sections of the book, "Policy and Practice Areas," "Children and the Law," and "Participation Rights, Status, and Recognition," cover such topics as child welfare, health care, education, the justice system, and corporal punishment, and examine issues related to disability, Indigenous Peoples, and refugees. Mindful of the difference between what Canadian governments say they are doing for children and what they are actually doing, the book concludes that many challenges remain on the path to full recognition and citizenship. At the same time, children's activism--their exercise of their participation rights--puts children's agency on full display, and provides examples for children and adults alike that are hard to reconcile with conceptions of children as objects or incomplete beings.--from back cover. |
| Item Description: | Originally published: Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 360 pages : forms ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781771124058 (paperback) : 1771124059 (paperback) 9781771124072 (PDF) 1771124075 (PDF) 9781771124065 (EPUB) 1771124067 (EPUB) |
| Index Number: | HQ789 |
| CLC: | D971.127 |
| Call Number: | D971.127/Q55/2nd ed. |
| Contents: |
Children's Rights : A Question of Status and Recognition / Policy And Practice Areas -- Do Canadian Education Practices Respect the Rights of the Child? / Parenting Education and Support : a Children's Rights Perspective / Promising Policies, Ambiguous Practices : An Exploration of the Status of Children in Canadian Health Care Settings / Young People, Justice, and Children's Rights in Canada : Critical Reflections at the Edge of Abeyant Action / Child Welfare and the Status of Children Requiring Support and Care / Assessing the rights and realities of war-affected refugee children in Canada / Supreme Court of Canada and the Convention / More than a Symbol : Canada's Legal Justification of Corporal Punishment of Children / Children's Rights Perspective on "Wrongful Life" Disability Medical Negligence Cases / Extraordinary Cases of J.J. and Makayla Sault / Participation Rights of the Child : At the Crossroads of Citizenship / Canadian Child and Youth Advocates' Roles in Supporting Children's Rights / Shaking the Movers : A Decade Later--Does Our Voice stick? / Children's Rights Pathway to Status and Recognition / |