Product Description: American political and legal culture is uncomfortable with children's sexuality. While aware that sexual expression is a necessary part of human development, law rarely contemplates the complex ways in which it interacts with children and sexuality...read more

<p> A landmark casebook in its field, <b>Child, Family, and State: Problems and Materials on Children and the Law, Sixth Edition,</b> presents an outstanding selection of cases and materials that reflect social and historical perspectives, law, and policy. </p> <p> <b>Beloved by many for its rich selection of interdisciplinary materials, Child, Family, and State: Problems and Materials on Children and the Law features:</b> </p> <ul> <li> <b>thought-provoking and comprehensive coverage</b> of children’s rights and the juvenile court system </li> <li> <b>social and historical perspectives</b> </li> <li> <b>realistic hypotheticals</b> that clarify the issues </li> <li> <b>provocative questions </b>in each chapter </li> <li> <b>flexible organization</b> that adapts to a variety of teaching objectives </li> </ul> <p> <b>Carefully updated throughout, the Sixth Edition includes coverage of:</b> </p> <ul> <li> constitutionality of the federal <b>partial-birth abortion ban </b> </li> <li> <b>students’ First Amendment rights</b> </li> <li> <b>custody and visitation rights of same-sex parents</b> </li> <li> <b>support rights of same-sex parents</b> </li> <li> <b>full, Faith and Credit for adoption decrees for same-sex partners</b> </li> <li> constitutionality of the <b>death penalty for child rape</b> </li> <li> uniform legislation on <b>representation of children in abuse and custody proceedings</b> </li> <li> uniform legislation on <b>parental abduction</b> </li> </ul> <p> From edition to edition, <b>Mnookin</b> and <b>Weisberg</b> continue to offer smart, timely coverage and a wealth of stimulating materials—while maintaining a consistently manageable length. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

Product Description: Lawmakers and judges often enact and enforce laws and policies that impact youth. The extent to which these legal actions are sensitive to juveniles' perspectives and experiences has changed recently. Compared to an earlier time when juvenlies were treated the same as adults, many policies are now created with the needs of juveniles in mind, thanks in part to psychological studies that have revealed that the decision making, behavior, and cognitions of children vary drastically from those of adults...read more

Product Description: This Edition has been thoroughly updated with the latest cases, statutory references, and scholarly commentary. It also includes coverage of recent Supreme Court decisions such as: Miller v. Alabama/Jackson v. Hobbs (2012), in which the Court held that mandatory imposition of a sentence of life without parole in the case of one who was a juvenile at the time of the offense violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment Graham v...read more

Product Description: The child protective system (CPS), shaped by federal law forty years ago and run on the state and county levels in the United States, offered in utopian fashion the hope of preventing all possible child abuse or neglect. In response, legislators enacted a spate of vague laws that poorly defined such categories as “abuse” and “neglect,” and granted the CPS sweeping powers to intrude into families, often on the basis of nothing more than anonymous complaints about standard childrearing practices...read more

Product Description: This dynamic book provides powerful ideas to guide pedagogy and a curriculum model for helping students connect with issues in their lives while meeting standards. Vivid portraits of K- 12 classrooms illustrate how teachers used a human rights framework to engage students in critical inquiry of relevant social issues, such as immigration rights, religious tolerance, racial equality, countering the effects of poverty, and respect for people with disabilities...read more

Product Description: The study and practice of juvenile law is inherently interdisciplinary--a successful practitioner must understand not only the legal implications in the field, but also have a solid grounding in child psychology, child development, neuroscience, sociology, criminology, and social work...read more

Product Description: When a child is conceived from sexual intercourse between a married, heterosexual couple, the child has a legal father and mother. Whatever may happen thereafter, the child’s parents are legally bound to provide for their child, and if they don’t, they’re held accountable by law...read more

Product Description: In Children's Rights Under the Law, Professor Samuel M. Davis examines ways in which the law relates to children, from private law (torts, contracts, property, child labor, and emancipation) to public law (First Amendment rights of children in school, abortion decision-making for children, school discipline, compulsory school attendance, and regulation of obscenity)...read more

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Product Description: Legal Rights of Children is a part of a series of General Counsel Law Notes written with the support of the NASW Legal Defense Fund. This Law Note highlights the various approaches taken by states concerning how the legal status and age of a child affect the right to sue, the right to make treatment decisions concerning the child's care, the right to contract, the right to educational services, and the right to be free from abuse and neglect...read more

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