A question of commitment : children's rights in Canada / R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : a question of commitment / R. Brian Howe -- Child poverty : the evolution and impact of child benefits / Ken Battle -- Early learning and child care : is Canada on track? / Martha Friendly -- A right to health : children's health and health care through a child rights lens / Cheryl van Daalen-Smith -- Corporal punishment : a violation of the rights of the child / Joan E. Durrant -- Child sexual abuse and exploitation : what progress has Canada made? / Anne McGillivray -- Youth justice and children's rights : transformations in Canada's youth justice system / Myriam Denov -- Restorative justice : toward a rights-based approach / Shannon Moore -- The participation rights of the child : Canada's track record / Kelly Campbell, Linda Rose-Krasnor -- Children's rights education : Canada's best-kept secret / Katherine Covell -- Aboriginal children's rights : is Canada keeping its promise? / Marlyn Bennett -- The rights of children in care : consistency with the convention? / Tom Waldock -- Homeless children and street-involved children in Canada ; On the rights of refugee children and child asylum seekers / Sonja Grover -- Implementing the rights of children with disabilities / Richard Sobsey -- Conclusion : Canada's ambivalence toward children / R. Brian Howe, Katherine Covell.

Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL

Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child over a decade ago, yet there is still a lack of awareness about and provision for children's rights. What are Canada's obligations to children? How has Canada fallen short? Why is it so important to the future of Canadian society that children's rights be met? Prompted by the gap between the promise of children's rights and the reality of their continuing denial, Katherine Covell and R. Brian Howe call for changes to existing laws, policies and practices. Using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as their framework, the authors examine the continuing problems of child poverty, child care, child protection, youth justice and the suppression of children's voices. They challenge us to move from seeing children as parental property to seeing children as independent bearers of rights. In The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, Canada's obligations and the rights of children are examined from the perspectives of research and development in the fields of developmental psychology, developmental neuroscience, law and family policy. This timely and accessible book will be of interest to academics, policy-makers and anyone who cares about children and about taking children's rights seriously.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. MiAaHDL

http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL

Print version record.

English.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide