A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment (2010) (The Loyola University Symposium on the Human Rights of Children #1)

Synopsis

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: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.

Copyright:

2010

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781441967916

Related ISBNs:

9781441967893

Publisher:

Springer New York

Date of Addition:

08/17/19

Copyrighted By:

Springer New York, New York, NY

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Psychology, Education, Social Studies, Medicine

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Bookshare Staff

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Edited by:

James Garbarino

Edited by:

Garry Sigman