Protection of Children's Rights to Self-Determination in Research

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl M. Sterling ◽  
Gary A. Walco
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Children’S Rights

Mothers', Fathers', and their Children's Perceptions and Reasoning about Nurturance and Self-Determination Rights

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Cherney
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Moral Consideration ◽  
Age Difference ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Perceptions ◽  
Older Adolescents

AbstractThe present study investigated the development of autonomy by interviewing 47 ten-to- sixteen year-old adolescents and their parents from three US Midwestern cities about their perceptions of children's rights. The findings showed that on average, parents thought that their children would advocate for more rights than their children actually did. Mothers were more likely than fathers to believe that their child would advocate for self-determination rights. Older adolescents used more diverse reasoning categories than younger adolescents in their decision making. There was no age difference in the adolescents' support of nurturance and self-determination rights. Parents were generally given authority over moral consideration, but less over conventional and personal conventions. The results are discussed in the context of the development of personal autonomy and relatedness.

The effect of parental education levels on children’s rights knowledge levels and attitude

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Ebru Elci ◽  
Cigdem Kuloglu
Keyword(s):  
Parental Education ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between the attitudes of parents toward children’s rights and educational levels of their parents. The researcher’s universe consists of parents who live in Istanbul and has children between the ages of 6 and 14, and sampling consists of a total of 3100 parents (1550 mothers and 1550 fathers). The data of the study were collected with a Likert type Parent-Child Rights Attitude Scale consisting of 63 items. The scale evaluates the attitudes of the parents toward their children’s rights as two main attitudes, ‘Care and Protection’ and ‘Self-Determination’. In ‘Care and Protection’ attitude, there are two sub-dimensional structures as ‘Government Assurance and Support’ and ‘Care and Protection’. The ‘Self-Determination’ attitude has a single sub-dimensional structure. In the analysis of data, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences program was used beside necessary statistical techniques. The data obtained regarding the effect of parents' education levels on their attitudes toward children’s rights are presented in a tabular form with respective frequencies. Keywords: Children’s rights, parent’s attitudes toward child rights, parent’s attitudes

Critical Race Theory and Children’s Rights

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-157
Author(s):  
Natsu Taylor Saito ◽  
Akilah J. Kinnison
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
International Law ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Right

Racialized privilege and subordination impact children’s rights in many ways. This chapter begins with an overview of critical race theory (CRT), a framework that has been used primarily to assess the roles played by race and racism in the US legal system. It then summarizes key provisions of international law that prohibit racial discrimination and protect the right of all peoples to self-determination, focusing on how these norms impact children’s rights. Noting the importance of addressing the intersection of race and rights, this chapter suggests that the application of CRT principles could enhance the recognition of children’s rights in international law.

Hong Kong pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards and knowledge of children’s rights

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-135
Author(s):  
Yan Lam Lo
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Training Institutions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

The Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasizes that the education of the child should be directed to the development of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. However, though Hong Kong is a one of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the government does not put much emphasis on promoting Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children’s rights education is not compulsory in schools or in teacher training institutions in Hong Kong. It is detrimental if teachers do not possess adequate knowledge and positive attitudes towards children’s rights as they hold a crucial role in educating children about their rights and nurturing rights-respecting students. Through modifying Rogers and Wrightsman’s Children’s Rights Attitudes Scale, the present research examined pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards children’s self-determination rights, nurturance rights, and the conflict between self-determination and nurturance rights, and also their knowledge of children’s rights, in order to uncover the areas of improvements.

The legal status of infant male circumcision

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-48
Author(s):  
Patrick Lenta ◽  
Jacqui Poltera
Keyword(s):  
Male Circumcision ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Bodily Integrity ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Infant Male ◽  
Religious Exemption

We present an argument in support of the legal prohibition of infant male circumcision (IMC) in developed Western countries. We submit that all IMC, irrespective of whether the motivation behind it be secular or religious, violates children’s rights to self-determination (autonomy) and bodily integrity and is therefore morally illegitimate. And while IMC’s being morally wrong does not entail that it ought to be criminalised, we contend that it should be legally proscribed so as to protect children against harm and to uphold their rights. We consider and reject an argument that an exemption from the legal ban should be granted to religious parents who perceive themselves to be under a moral obligation to subject their male infants to IMC. We argue that since IMC sets back children’s basic interests and violates their rights, there is no room, and no case, for the conferring of a religious exemption.

Urban Youth’s Views of Children’s Nurturance and Self-determination Rights: An Exploratory Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle M. Elisha ◽  
Martin D. Ruck
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Urban Adolescents ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Story Character

The present qualitative study examined low-income urban adolescents’ understanding of children’s rights. Using a written instrument, sixteen 11–15 year olds responded to hypothetical vignettes in which a child story character expresses the desire to exercise a nurturance or self-determination right. Participants were asked whether they, their parents, and their peers would support the story characters’ rights and to provide justifications for their responses. Results indicated that in general participants were in favour of supporting children’s nurtur­ance and self-determination rights. However, participants believed that while their parents would support children’s nurturance rights they would show less support for children’s self-determination rights. In contrast, participants suggested that their peers would likely reject children’s nurturance rights but support the story-character’s self-determination rights. The types of explanations young people used to explain their thinking showed clear differences for nurturance and self-determination rights. Findings are discussed in relation to the available theory and research on young people’s views and understanding of children’s rights.

scholarly journals Giving Children’s Views “Due Weight” in Medical Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Alderson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Medical Law ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Children’S Views ◽  
And Control

Article 12 with its concern to give “due weight” to children’s views involves potential contradictions between human rights to self-determination and children’s rights. A set of conditions in Article 12 turns rights into highly qualified permissions that can transfer agency and control from children onto adults. These are further complicated by reports by the un Committee on the Rights of the Child and others that position children’s best interests against their expressed views, and by contrasting standards set by national laws and guidance. Theories about children’s rights in medical law differ from actual practice in reported cases, which are influenced by long-standing theories about childhood in philosophy and psychology that disregard realities in children’s lives. Barriers to due respect for children’s views in medical law and practice that need to be addressed are summarised.

scholarly journals Do Children still need to Escape Childhood?

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronagh Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Children's Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Current State ◽  
Rights Discourse

The work of children’s liberationists have been long been critiqued for pushing the parameters of rights discourse too far; specifically, by suggesting that there are no significant differences between children and adults, including their ability for self-determination. John Holt’s 1974 text, Escape from Childhood, is one such work which was deemed highly controversial for its time. This article uses Holt’s Escape from Childhood as an overarching framework against which to examine the current state of play on children’s rights as explicated through the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It suggests that whilst Holt has often been critiqued for being too radical, in the context of current children’s rights discourse, Holt’s visioning is not as radical as it might first appear.

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