Children

Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children’s rights. David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to a topic that has assumed increasing relevance since the book’s first publication. Divided clearly into three parts, it covers key topics such as: • John Locke’s writings on children • Philippe Ariès’s Centuries of Childhood • children’s moral and legal rights • a child’s right to vote and to sexual choice • parental rights to privacy and autonomy • defining and understanding child abuse The third edition has been fully revised and updated throughout with a new chapter providing an in-depth analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and Part 2 has been restructured to move the reader from general theoretical considerations of children’s rights through to practical