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Martin Guggenheim, What's Wrong with Children's Rights.

Publication: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Martin Guggenheim, What's Wrong with Children's Rights.(Book review)

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Martin Guggenheim, What's Wrong with Children's Rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. $27.95 hardcover.

According to the latest United States census, roughly one-quarter of the nation's population is below 17 years of age. This substantial number of persons, one might expect, would have "rights". Thus, Guggenheim' book title, What's Wrong with Children's Rights, is intriguing. From all sorts of bully pulpits, preachers, politicians, and pundits discuss the nature and extent of children's rights in cases of abortion, adoption, education, nutrition, health care, use of car safety seats, exposure to military recruitment presentations, bullying, zero tolerance for weapons in school, family and dating violence ... the list is almost endless. Guggenheim, in his highly thought-provoking book, takes issue with the notion that a child's "rights" necessarily coincide with the child's "interests".

As Guggenheim suggests, for instance,...

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