Continuing his ongoing social critique, Henry Giroux looks at the way corporate culture is encroaching on the lives of children by exploring three myths prevalent in our society: that the triumph of democracy is related to the triumph of the market; that children are unaffected by power and politics; and that teaching and learning are no longer linked to improving the world. Looking at childhood beauty pageants, school shootings, and the omnipresent nihilistic chic of advertising, Giroux paints a disturbing picture of the world surrounding our children. Ultimately, he turns to the work of Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire, and Stuart Hall for lessons on how we can reinstitute a realistic childhood for our children.

Examine the questions of how, what, and why associated with religiousness and spirituality in the lives of older adults! New Directions in the Study of Late Life Religiousness and Spirituality explores new ways of thinking about a topic that was once taboo but that has now attracted considerable attention from the gerontological community. It examines various approaches to methodology and definition that are used in the study of religion, spirituality, and aging. In addition, it explores the ways that gerontological research can highlight the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of older adults. The first section will introduce you to new ways of thinking about research methodology and data analysis that can be applied to studying the complexity of older adults' religious/spiritual practice and beliefs. You'll learn several approaches to the study of phenomena that are both personal and also deeply embedded in community. The second section addresses issues of definition, exploring important questions that call for critical reflection, such as: What are we studying? What social and psychological influences shape our thinking about definition? and Do the definitions used by gerontologists match those held by older people? The final section moves the study of religion, spirituality, and aging beyond a focus on health and mortality to examine well-being more broadly in the context of the life experiences of older adults. Here is a small sample of what you'll learn about in New Directions in the Study of Late Life Religiousness and Spirituality: structural equation modelinga statistical method designed to capture the dynamics inherent in the passage of time feminist qualitative methods for studying spiritual resiliency in older women spirituality as a public health issue the differences between groups of older people in the way they define religion and spirituality the psychosocial implications of two types of religious orientationdwelling and seeking older women's responses to the experience of widowhood and to the question of whether their religious beliefs were affected by the experience how social context influences our decisions and our interpretations of people's religious beliefs, behaviors, and experiences the ways that people caring for a spouse with dementia rely on religious coping a model that delineates three different ways people relate to God in copingand a study that asks whether these types of coping produce different outcomes for caregivers how people adjust to bereavement as a function of their beliefs about an afterlife

Sociological Analysis of Aging: The Gay Male Perspective is an exploratory study of the life changes homosexual and bisexual men experience as they age. This unique book presents in-depth, qualitative interviews with gay men, aged 55 and older, focusing on their physical, mental, and social needs. More than one hundred men offer first-hand perceptions on the unique problems they face with regards to employment/retirement, housing, health and well-being, and relationships, and how they function within (or without) a social support system. Sociological Analysis of Aging fills in the gaps in the existing social science literature on homosexuals and aging, updating findings that were inconclusive when first published and/or based on case studies or limited samples. While standard books on aging typically deal with the impact of life events such as child rearing, the empty nest syndrome, and grandparenting, Sociological Analysis of Aging deals with the unique realities that gay men face in addition to the universal concerns of the elderly: affordable health care, affordable housing, and adequate coverage for medication costs. The study examines what can be done to assist successful aging for sexual minorities, particularly in the areas of social policy, service delivery, and public tolerance. Sociological Analysis of Aging focuses on specific research questions: Do aging gay men consider themselves to be physically healthy? Do aging gay men suffer from depression? Do aging gay men have access to social support networks? What are the housing needs of the aging gay communitypresent and future? How involved are aging gay men with family, friends, church, and community? In addition, the men interviewed were asked what, if anything, was left on a to-do list; what the best and worst aspects of aging are; and what, if anything, they would change about the course their lives had taken. Their answers make Sociological Analysis of Aging: The Gay Male Perspective an essential resource for therapists, counselors, and social workers, and for academics working in sociology, psychology, gerontology, and gay studies.

Contents:
Section 1. Introduction 1. The ScreenPlay project 2. Setting the scene: Patterns of computer use in the home Section 2. The domestic context 3. Computer histories, computer roles in the home 4. The computer in family life Section 3. Young people's computer use in the home 5. The digital landscape: Games and information navigation 6. Writing, designing and making on the computer in the home Section 4. Digital cultures 7. Computers, consumption and identity 8. Computers, gender and class 9. Digital childhood Section 5. Learning with the computer 10. Learning with the computer at home 11. Learning with computers at school 12. Conclusion

The recent explosion in population aging across the globe represents one of the most remarkable demographic changes in human history. There is much concern about population aging and its consequences for nations, for governments, and for individuals. It has often been noted that population aging will inevitably affect the economic stability of most countries and the policies of most state governments. What is less obvious, but equally important, is that population aging will profoundly affect families. Who will care for the growing numbers of tomorrow's very old members of societies? Will it be state governments? The aged themselves? Their families? The purpose of this volume is to examine consequences of global aging for families and intergenerational support, and for nations as they plan for the future. Four remarkable social changes during the past fifty years are highlighted: (1) Extension of the life course: A generation has been added to the average span of life over the past century; (2) Changes in the age structures of nations: Most nations today have many more elders, and many fewer children, than fifty years ago; (3) Changes in family structures and relationships: Some of these differences are the result of trends in family structure, notably higher divorce rates and the higher incidence of childbearing to single parents; (4) Changes in governmental responsibilities: In the last decade, governmental responsibility appears to have slowed or reversed as states reduce welfare expenditures. How will families respond to twenty-first-century problems associated with population aging? Will families indeed be important in the twenty-first century, or will kinship and the obligations across generations become increasingly irrelevant, replaced by "personal communities"? This volume goes a considerable distance to answer these critical issues for the twenty-first century. "Vern L. Bengtson" is an AARP/University Chair in Gerontology and Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California. "Ariela Lowenstein" is associate professor and head, Department of Aging Studies, University of Haifa, Israel.

Includes special applications for TA with diverse populations Incorporates case examples and illustrations with test data, sample feedback letter, and call-boxes Guides reader step-by-step through all the stages of TA including the assessor's thinking processes and conceptualizations Includes handouts

As the first complete portrait of U.S. adolescents, this resource provides information long needed by researchers working in this critical field of study. The handbook includes a wide variety of information about American adolescents, aged 12 to 21, who must deal with societal and cultural pressures unique to their generation. The extensive collection of data contained in this definitive resource will give readers the information they need to accurately assess the status of adolescents in America today.

This book discusses current research on identity formation, family and peer influences, risk and resilience factors, and concepts of masculinity and sexuality in African American boys. Sorting out genuine findings from popular misconceptions and misleading headlines, this concise and wide-ranging reference covers the crucial adolescent years, ages 11-16, acknowledging diversity of background and experience in the group, and differences and similarities with African American girls as well as with other boys. In addition, the authors review strengths-based school and community programs that harness evidence and insights to promote pro-social behavior. Featured areas of coverage include: The protective role of ethnic identity and racial socialization. Family management, cohesion, communication, and well-being. Development and importance of peer relationships. Health and well-being. Theoretical perspectives on educational achievement. Factors that contribute to delinquency and victimization. What works: effective programs and practices. African American Boys is an essential resource for a wide range of clinicians and practitioners - as well as researchers and graduate students - in school and clinical child psychology, prevention and public health, social work, mental health therapy and counseling, family therapy, and criminal justice.

The Last Years of Long Lives is a unique account of that period of old age which precedes death. Based on 400 complete individual histories and covering a twenty-year period, it looks at the experiences of people over eighty years old in three important areas: disability, family life and health care. Using the life-course approach to research, it reveals rich data about the contributions of formal and informal care and how life expectancy and experiences of disability interact with experiences of care.

The reader is invited to conceptualise these phenomena as processes in continuous time - processes that are sometimes long and complex, sometimes short and simple - and learns about the four types of disability career before death. At the same time, the author presents a three-stage model of informal care and examines the main patterns of formal service use.

The Last Years of Long Lives presents a new way of looking at old age for students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers and gives a comprehensive picture of what has been called 'the fourth age'.

This work is a compilation of diverse information on depression in the elderly, covering the time period from 1970 to 1996. The information comes from many forms, including articles, audio- and videocassettes, books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, and television programs. The work is organized into 12 chapters, with a list of acronyms, three appendixes, and separate author and subject indexes. This book is intended for students as well as health care and related professionals.

This book is the result of a four-year, in-depth study using social science methodology of those refugees who came as children or youths from Central Europe to the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, fleeing persecution from the National Socialist regime. This study examines their fates in their new country, their successes and tribulations.

They must make mature decisions before they are out of school, take on adult responsibilities before they have left home, and care for their children before they have completed their own childhood. One of today's greatest social issues, pregnant teens walk the boundary between childhood and adulthood, no longer able to reside in one world, and unprepared for the next. While society traditionally is quick to condemn, Wendy Luttrell counters the stigmatising ways in which such girls have been traditionally held with this moving ethnography of their lives. Focusing on fifty girls enrolled in a model public school program for pregnant teens in the US, Luttrell explores how pregnant girls experience society's view of them and also considers how these girls view themselves and the choices they've made. She pays particular attention to how schools react to pregnant teens and what they are doing to help these vulnerable young women to achieve their education. Readers learn the real problems that pregnant teens are dealing with, and how society's racial and class stereotypes continue to stigmatise and scapegoat them. These individual stories are accompanied by personal self-portraits that present a carefully detailed and powerfully moving picture of the issues these girls face everyday.

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With the transformation of the elderly into the major political force in American politics, older Americans have used their increasing numbers and political power to capture a growing and disproportionate share of public resources. This book explores their emergence from obscurity to political preeminence and considers the effect of their power on other members of society. It traces the shift in public attitude from the 18th century to the early 20th century, when the elderly population increased and needed an economic safety net. It then focuses on the elderly's growing power in the late 20th century and examines how they are receiving an expanding share of the budget for such programs as Social Security and Medicare at the expense of such groups as children in poverty.

Asking the provocative question of what one generation owes another, the author shows that as the number of elderly living in poverty has decreased dramatically, the number of children in poverty has skyrocketed. The book concludes by analyzing the demographic projections of what lies ahead--a static working-age population supporting an exploding population of retirees and a baby boom generation that is ill-prepared for its own retirement. For the next few years, the challenge of an aging population will be a national problem; if unaddressed, it will become a national crisis.

What kinds of obligations do parents have towards their children as family life becomes more complex? Many children pass through a number of different households,living with one or both parents and later step parents and step brothers and sisters. How are the new forms of family life accommodated in the legal system? The answer is that parenthood, rather than marriage, is now emerging as the central mechanism through which moral principles are converted into legal and social obligations. This study of 250 children who do not live with both of their parents shows, however, that despite the comparative legal emptiness of marriage, the experience of living longer with both parents than is usually the case of children of cohabiting or single parents endows the child with social capital in the form of enduring involvement with the outside parent, even after divorce, and that this happens to a greater extent than for children whose parents were not married.

Recent decades have seen a fundamental change in the age structure of many western societies. In these societies it is now common for a fifth to a quarter of the population to be retired, for fewer babies to be born than is required to sustain the size of the population and for life expectancy to exceed eighty years old. This book provides an overview of the key issues arising from this demographic change.

Contents:
1. Education of Children and Parent's Right to Control Child's Education

A. Right to Control Education Generally

ARTICLES

De Mitchell, Todd A. 'The Right to Direct the Upbringing of a Child', Parent as Sovereign and State as Educator: A Balance of Vital Interests', 6 International Journal of Education Reform pp. 368-376 (1997).

Garnett, Richard W., 'Taking Pierce Seriously: The Family, Religious Education and Harm to Children', Vol. 76 Notre Dame Law Review 109-146 (2000).

Ross, William G., 'The Contemporary Significance of Meyer and Pierce for Parental Rights Issues Involving Education', Vol. 34 Akron Law Review 177-207 (2000).

B. School Vouchers

ARTICLES

Underkuffler, Laura S., 'The Price of Vouchers for Religious Freedom', Vol. 78 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 463-478 (2001).

Lupu, Ira C., 'The Increasingly Anachronistic Case Against Scholl Vouchers', Vol. 13 Notre Dame Journal of Law Ethics and Public Policy 375-396 (1999).

2. The Constitutional Rights of Schoolchildren

A. Generally

ARTICLES

Brown, Lisa A. and Gilbert, Christopher., 'Understanding the Constitutional Rights of School Children', Vol. 34-APR Houston Lawyer 40-45 (1997).

Ryan, James E., 'The Supreme Court and Public Schools, Vol. 86 Virginia Law Review 1335-1433 (2000).

B. Corporal Punishment in Schools

ARTICLES

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 'Policy Statement: Corporal Punishment in Schools', (June 1998).

Corporal Punishment in Schools: A Postition Paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine', Journal of Adolescent Health: 1992;13 240-246.

Imbrogno, Andre R. 'Corporal Punishment in America's Public Schools and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Case for Nonratification', Vol. 29 Journal of Law and Education 125-147 (2000).

Free Speech

ARTICLES

Parker, Jonathan K., 'Parents Patriage in the Marketplace of Ideas: Limitations of Freedom of Expression in the Public Schools', Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, 1997, pp. 39-41.
Johnson, John W., 'Behind the Scenes in Iowa's Greatest Case: What Isn't in the Official Record of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District', Vol. 48 drake Law Review 473-490 (2000).

Hafen, Bruce C., 'Schools as Intellectual And Moral Associations' 1993 Brigham Young University Law Review 605-621 (1993).

Ingber, Stanley, 'Liberty and Authority: Two facets of the Incultation of Virtue', Vol. 69 St. John's Law Review 421-479 (1995).

Allred, Chad. 'Guarding the Treasure: Protection of Student Religious Speech in the Classroom', Vol.22 Seattle University Law Review 741-780 (1999).

D. Minor's Right to Be Free From Unreasonable Searches And Seizure

ARTICLES

Mitchell, J. Chad, Comment, 'An Alternative Approach to the Fourth Amendment in Public Schools: Balancing Students' Rights with School Safety', B.Y.U. Law Review 1207-1240 (1998).

E. Minor's Rights to Procedual Due Process Prior to Suspension from School

ARTICLES

Wilkinson, III, Hon. J. Harvie, 'Constitutionalization of School Discipline: an Unnecessary and Counter-Productive Solution', Vol. 1 Michigan Law and Policy Review 309-313 (1996).

Strossen, Nadine. 'Protecting Student Rights Promotes Educational Opportunity: A Response to Judge Wilkinson, Vol.1 Michigan Law and Policy Review 315-323 (1996).

This book examines the social aspects of healthy ageing for older individuals. It features more than 15 papers that explore the relevance of the social environment for health on the micro, meso, and macro level. Overall, the book applies a comprehensive contextual approach that includes discussion of how family and friends, neighborhoods, nations, and welfare regimes influence health. The book first explores the issue on the individual level. It looks at the importance of social capital for health among older people, examines types of social networks and health among older Americans, as well as discusses dynamic social capital and mental health in late life. Next, the book looks at the issue through a neighborhood and societal context, which takes into account day-to-day interaction in the immediate environment as well as the social, health, and economic policies in place in different regions in the world, including America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. From there, the book goes on to offer implications and recommendations for research and practice, including the management of related concepts of research on well-being and health. It also offers a psychosocial approach to promoting social capital and mental health among older adults. This book provides health professionals as well as researchers and students in gerontology, sociology, social policy, psychology, and social work with vital insights into the social factors that increase healthy life years and promote well-being.

This special issue presents theoretical and empirical studies that provide an understanding of the dynamic, complex, and often conflicting school, family, and community context in which African-American and Latino adolescents are formally and informally educated. Focusing on the examination of identity development, family/community background and resources, and academic performance, this issue is concerned with the development and implementation of culturally relevant policies and programs for these adolescents that effectively support their academic success. Each paper addresses a set of challenging questions and, in the process, raises new questions. As a result, the papers challenge researchers, policymakers, and educators to engage in thoughtful examination of the sociocultural context in which African American and Latino youth live as they address their developmental and academic needs.

As Tony Blair has argued "Technology has revolutionised the way we work and is now set to transform education. Children cannot be effective in tomorrow's world if they are trained in yesterday's skills."
Cyberkids draws together research in the sociology of childhood and social studies of technology to explore children's experiences in the Information Age. The book addresses key policy debates about social inclusion and exclusion, children's identities and friendships in on-line and off-line worlds and their relationships with families and teachers. It counters contemporary moral panics about children's risk from dangerous strangers on-line, about corruption and lost innocence from adult-centred material on the web and about the addiction to life on the screen. Instead, by showing how children use ICT in balanced and sophisticated ways, the book draws out the importance of everyday uses of technology and the ways in which children's local experiences are embedded within, and in part, constitute the global.

This collection of facsimile reprints brings together essays in the field of American law relating to the controversial area of children's rights, parents' rights, and state's obligations toward children. Articles discuss the major rulings concerning an array of hotly debated issues.
Volume three explores the rights of children against the state. Areas treated include freedom of speech, the right of a minor to refuse medical treatment and a minor's right to contraception and abortion with and without parental consent, the rights of minors to separate from their legal parents, the rights of children to know their biological parents in the case of adoption, the rights of children resisting repatriation to relatives outside the United States.

Contents:
VOLUME 1: PARENT, STATE AND CHILD - PARENTING OF CHILDREN

1. Generally

ARTICLES

Klicka, Christopher J. and Phillips, Douglas W., 'Why Parental Rights Laws are Necessary', Educational Leadership Vol. 55, Nov.1997, pp.80-83.

Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett, 'Child Abuse, The Constitution and the Legacy of Pierce v. Society of Sisters', 78 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 479-489 (2001).
2. Who is a Parent?

A. Generally

ARTICLES

Holmes, Gilbert A. 'The Tie that Binds: The Constitutional Right of Children to Maintain a Relationship with Parent-Like Individuals', Vol.53 Maryland Law Review 358-411 (1994).

B. The Unwed Parent

ARTICLES

Comment, Craig and Toni, L., 'Establishing the Biological Rights Doctrine to Protect Unwed Fathers in Contested Adoptions', Vol. 25 Florida State University Law Review 391-438 (1998).

Boccaccini, Marcus T. and Willemsen, Eleanor, 'Contested Adoption and the Liberty Interest of the Child', Vol. 10 Saint Thomas Law Review 211-227 (1998).

C. Persons Who are Parent-Like

ARTICLES

Brandon, Kristin J., Note, 'The Liberty Interests of Foster Parents and the Future of Foster Care', Vol.63 University of Cincinnati Law Review 403-437 (1994).

Haury, Cassandra S., Note, The Changing American Family: A Reevaluation of the Rights of Foster Parents When Biological Rights Have Been Terminated', Vol. 35 Georgia Law Review 313-344 (2000).

The State's 'Right' to Intervene in the Parent-Child relationship to Protect a Child from Harm

A. Custody and Adoption of Children

CASES

Palmore v Sidoti, 466 US 429-434 (1984)

Santosky v Kramer, 455 US 745-791 (1982)

ARTICLES

O'Brien, Raymond C., 'An Analysis of Realistic Due Process Rights of Children Versus Parents', Vol. 26 Connecticut Law Review 1209-1260 (1994).

B. Corporal Punishment of Children by Parents or Guardians

ARTICLES

Bitensky, Susan H., 'The Child's Right to Humane Discipline under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Mandate Against All Corporal Punishment of Children', Vol.4 Loyola Poverty Law Journal 47-53 (1998).

Garner, Richard, 'Fundamentally Speaking: Application of Ohio's Domestic Violence Laws in Parental Discipline Cases - A Parental Perspective', Vol. 30 Toledo Law Review 1-29 (1998)

Orentlicher, David. 'Spanking and Other Corporal Punishment of Children by Parents: Overvaluing Pain, Undervaluing Children', Vol. 35 Houston Law Review 147-185 (1998).

C. Parent's of Medical Treatment for Children

ARTICLES

Wadlington, Walter., 'Medical Decision Making for and by Children: Tensions Between Parent, State and Child', 1994 University of Illinois Law review 311-336 (1994).

Lederman, Anne D., Understanding Faith: When Religious Parents Decline Conventional Medical Treatment for Their Children', Vol. 45 Case Western Law Review 891-926 (1995).

Dwyer, James G., 'Spiritual Treatment Exemptions to Child Medical Neglect Laws: What We Outsiders Should Think', Vol. 76 Notre Dame Law Review 147-177 (2000).

State's Obligation to Protect Children from Harm

ARTICLES

Armacost, Barbara E., 'Affirmative Duties, Systematic Harms and the Due Process Clause', Vol. 94 Michigan Law Review 982-1040 (1996).

Schriwer, Tania., Comment, 'Establishing an Affirmative Governmental Duty to Protect Children's Rights: The European Court of Human Rights as a Model for the United States Supreme Court', Vol. 34 University of San Francisco Law Review 379-408 (2000).

5. Third-party Visitation with Children
ARTICLES

Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett., 'Protecting Children's Relationships with Extended Family: The Impact of Troxel v. Granville', Vol.19, No. 5 ABA Child Law Practice 65, 70-71 (July 2000).

Weiss, Elizabeth., Comment, 'Nonparent Visitation Rights v. Family Autonomy: An Abridgement of Parents' Constitutional Rights?', Vol. 10 Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal 1085-1131 (2000)

Strawman, Erica L., 'Grandparent Visitation: The Best Interests of the Grandparent, Child and Society', Vol. 30 University of Toledo Law Review 31-47 (1998)

VOLUME 2: PARENT STATE AND CHILD - THE SCHOOLING OF CHILDREN

1. Education of Children and Parent's Right to Control Child's Education

A. Right to Control Education Generally

ARTICLES

De Mitchell, Todd A. 'The Right to Direct the Upbringing of a Child', Parent as Sovereign and State as Educator: A Balance of Vital Interests', 6 International Journal of Education Reform pp. 368-376 (1997).

Garnett, Richard W., 'Taking Pierce Seriously: The Family, Religious Education and Harm to Children', Vol. 76 Notre Dame Law Review 109-146 (2000).

Ross, William G., 'The Contemporary Significance of Meyer and Pierce for Parental Rights Issues Involving Education', Vol. 34 Akron Law Review 177-207 (2000).

B. School Vouchers

ARTICLES

Underkuffler, Laura S., 'The Price of Vouchers for Religious Freedom', Vol. 78 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 463-478 (2001).

Lupu, Ira C., 'The Increasingly Anachronistic Case Against Scholl Vouchers', Vol. 13 Notre Dame Journal of Law Ethics and Public Policy 375-396 (1999).

2. The Constitutional Rights of Schoolchildren

A. Generally

ARTICLES

Brown, Lisa A. and Gilbert, Christopher., 'Understanding the Constitutional Rights of School Children', Vol. 34-APR Houston Lawyer 40-45 (1997).

Ryan, James E., 'The Supreme Court and Public Schools, Vol. 86 Virginia Law Review 1335-1433 (2000).

B. Corporal Punishment in Schools

ARTICLES

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 'Policy Statement: Corporal Punishment in Schools', (June 1998).

Corporal Punishment in Schools: A Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine', Journal of Adolescent Health: 1992;13 240-246.

Imbrogno, Andre R. 'Corporal Punishment in America's Public Schools and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Case for Nonratification', Vol. 29 Journal of Law and Education 125-147 (2000).

Free Speech

ARTICLES

Parker, Jonathan K., 'Parents Patriage in the Marketplace of Ideas: Limitations of Freedom of Expression in the Public Schools', Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, 1997, pp. 39-41.

Johnson, John W., 'Behind the Scenes in Iowa's Greatest Case: What Isn't in the Official Record of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District', Vol. 48 drake Law Review 473-490 (2000).

Hafen, Bruce C., 'Schools as Intellectual And Moral Associations' 1993 Brigham Young University Law Review 605-621 (1993).

Ingber, Stanley, 'Liberty and Authority: Two facets of the Incultation of Virtue', Vol. 69 St. John's Law Review 421-479 (1995).

Allred, Chad. 'Guarding the Treasure: Protection of Student Religious Speech in the Classroom', Vol.22 Seattle University Law Review 741-780 (1999).

D. Minor's Right to Be Free From Unreasonable Searches And Seizure

ARTICLES

Mitchell, J. Chad, Comment, 'An Alternative Approach to the Fourth Amendment in Public Schools: Balancing Students' Rights with School Safety', B.Y.U. Law Review 1207-1240 (1998).

E. Minor's Rights to Procedural Due Process Prior to Suspension from School

ARTICLES

Wilkinson, III, Hon. J. Harvie, 'Constitutionalization of School Discipline: an Unnecessary and Counter-Productive Solution', Vol. 1 Michigan Law and Policy Review 309-313 (1996).

Strossen, Nadine. 'Protecting Student Rights Promotes Educational Opportunity: A Response to Judge Wilkinson, Vol.1 Michigan Law and Policy Review 315-323 (1996).

VOLUME 3: CHILD VERSUS STATE

1. Generally

ARTICLES

Geimer, William S. 'Juvenileness: A Single Edged Constitutional Sword', Vol. 22 Georgia Law Review 949-973 (1988).

2. Minor's Medical Rights

A. Generally

ARTICLES

Hanisco, Christine, Note, 'Acknowledging the Hypocrisy: Granting Minors the Right to Choose Their Medical Treatment', Vol. 16 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 899-932 (2000).

B. Minor's Right to Contraception

CASES

Carey v. Population Services International, 431 US 678-719 (1977).

Minor's Right to Abortion

ARTICLES

Puzella, Carolyn., 'Rights of Children: Abortion Rights of Minors, Parental Consent and Parental Notification', Vol. 11 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 642-645 (2000).

Collett, Teresa Stanton. 'Seeking Solomon's Wisdom: Judicial Bypass of Parental Involvement in a Minor's Abortion Decision', Vol. 52 Baylor Law Review 513-601 (2000).

Katz, Katheryn D., 'The Pregnant Child's Right to Self-Determination', Vol.62 Albany Law Review 1119-1166 (1999).

3. Juvenile Curfews

ARTICLES

Norton, Diedre E., 'Why Criminalize Children? Looking Beyond the Express Policies Driving Juvenile Curfew Legislation', Vol.4 New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 175-203 (2000/2001).

Hammens, Craig. and Bennett, Katherine., 'Out in the Street: Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Curfews and the Constitution', 34 Gonzaga Law Review 267-327 (1998/1999).

Sasse, Benjamin C., Note, 'Curfew Laws, Freedom of Movement and the Rights of Juveniles', Vol.50 Case Western Reserve Law Review 681-728 (2000).

Foreman, William L., Note, 'Constitutional Law: Hutchins v. District of Columbia: The Constitutional Dilemma Over Juvenile Curfews, 53 Oklahoma Law Review 717-735 (2000).

This collection of facsimile reprints brings together essays in the field of American law relating to the controversial area of children's rights, parents' rights, and state's obligations toward children. Articles discuss the major rulings concerning an array of hotly debated issues.
Volume one focuses on the obligations of the state to insure the protection of children and to intervene on behalf of a child. Issues include the rights of parents to educate children, to retain custody of children and to inflict corporal and noncorporal punishment on children. This volume also covers the state's lack of obligation to intervene in the private sphere of the family, i.e. the right of the state to remain neutral in cases of abuse, threat, or in cases where decisions made by the head of a household might appear to compromise the welfare or best interests of a child.