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.
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