It's a startling reality that more American children are victims-and perpetrators-of violence than those of any other developed country. Yet unlike the other nations, the United States has yet to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Compelling, readable, and interdisciplinary, A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment provides an abundance of skilled observation, important findings, and keen insights to place children's well-being in the vanguard of human rights concerns, both in the United States and globally.
Within this volume, authors examine the impediments to the crucial goals of justice, safety, dignity, well-being, and meaning in children's lives, factors as varied as socioeconomic stressors, alienated, disengaged parents, and corrosive moral lessons from the media. The complex role of religious institutions in promoting and, in many cases, curtailing children's rights is analyzed, as are international efforts by advocates and policymakers to address major threats to children's development, including:
A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment is a powerful call to action for researchers and professionals in developmental, clinical child, school, and educational psychology as well as psychiatry, pediatrics, social work, general and special education, sociology, and other fields tasked with improving children's lives.
Within this volume, authors examine the impediments to the crucial goals of justice, safety, dignity, well-being, and meaning in children's lives, factors as varied as socioeconomic stressors, alienated, disengaged parents, and corrosive moral lessons from the media. The complex role of religious institutions in promoting and, in many cases, curtailing children's rights is analyzed, as are international efforts by advocates and policymakers to address major threats to children's development, including:
- War and natural disasters.
- Environmental toxins (e.g., malaria and lead poisoning).
- The child obesity epidemic.
- Gun violence.
- Child slavery and trafficking.
- Toxic elements in contemporary culture.
A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment is a powerful call to action for researchers and professionals in developmental, clinical child, school, and educational psychology as well as psychiatry, pediatrics, social work, general and special education, sociology, and other fields tasked with improving children's lives.
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- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Seitenzahl: 235
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.09.2010
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781441967916
- Artikelnr.: 37356050
Preface.- Part I - Perspectives on Healthy Environments for Children.- To Such as These the Kingdom of Heaven Belongs: Religion and Faith as Foundation for Children's Rights.- Preventing Childhood Malaria: Strategies That Work Today and Directions for the Future .- A Case Study of a Partnership in Chicago to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning.- Part II - Why Is Protecting the Human Rights of Children so Difficult?.- Spare the Rod: Why Are More American Children Victims and Perpetrators of Violence Than Those of Any Other Developed Country?.- Promoting a Protective Environment for Children Affected by Disaster and War.- When Rights and Needs Collide.- Part III - Human Rights as a Tool for Social Change.- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Instrument for Creating a Healthy Environment for the Child.- The Right to a Family Environment for Children of Prisoners .- A Child's Right to an Environment that Prevents Obesity: Ethical Considerations .- Anchoring and Empowering Children: A Child's Right to Participation Within a Healthy Environment .- Part IV - Cultural and Social Impediments to a Healthy Environment for Children.- Child Slavery and the Global Economy: Historical Perspectives on a Contemporary Problem.- In Harm's Way in America: The Burden of Gun Violence.- The Right to a Healthy Social Environment: Protecting Children from Social Toxicity.
From the reviews:
"In 2008, Loyola University's Center for the Rights of Children hosted a symposium on the rights of children with a focus on environmental health. ... The book brings together advocacy and academic content from the symposium topics contributed by experts in the field. ... This collection of symposium presentations ... to be more applicable to those in academia than to those in practice; however, all adults must carry the moral weight of respecting the worth and dignity of the rights of children." (Mardi Allen, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 56 (8), February, 2011)
"In 2008, Loyola University's Center for the Rights of Children hosted a symposium on the rights of children with a focus on environmental health. ... The book brings together advocacy and academic content from the symposium topics contributed by experts in the field. ... This collection of symposium presentations ... to be more applicable to those in academia than to those in practice; however, all adults must carry the moral weight of respecting the worth and dignity of the rights of children." (Mardi Allen, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 56 (8), February, 2011)