| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 390 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Destroying children. Beaten, burned, boiled, and starved / Andrew Schneider -- The nightmare of childhood / Lloyd De Mause -- They tried to help / Bob Greene -- Do you want to get beat up at home or in prison? / "Deb" -- Who looks after Laura? / Sanford N. Katz -- Foster homes that are not "too loving" / Jean Dietz -- The child is father to the man / Thomas J. Cottle -- Banished children / Hon. Justine Wise Polier -- Kill each other, be killed, kill yourself / Larry Cole -- Turning kids into waste / Nat Hentoff -- "No one will listen" / Hon. Lois G. Forer -- The smell of waste / Susan M. Fisher -- We are failing the children / Marian Wright Edelman -- The bitter cry of children / John Spargo -- "God save them, those children; and for allowing such a state of affairs to continue, God save us, too" / Robert Coles -- The oppression of the young. "We do not recognize their right to control us" / Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor -- A prison of love / Philippe Ariès -- Reflections on children's rights / Paul Goodman -- "Son,...you're not working out" [cartoon] / Jules Feiffer -- Our lost children / William V. Shannon -- The heritage of our children / Margaret Mead -- The oppression of youth / Ted Clark -- How schools subjugate youth / Edgar Z. Friedenberg -- Children as victims / David Gottlieb -- Growing up unheard / Helen Baker -- Birth of a movement. The Children's Rights Movement / Perter Edelman -- Nationwide drive for children's rights / U.S. news & world report -- The rights of children in world perspective / Joan Bel Geddes -- To what are children entitled? / Hon. Mary Kohler -- Change the victims : or the society? / Kenneth Keniston -- Needed : new routes to adulthood / The Coleman report -- "Our system for making human beings human is breaking down" / Urie Bronfenbrenner -- Doing well by "doing good" / Rena Uviller -- "Good parents must think more like radicals" / Mark Gerzon -- Citizen action for children / Barbara Bode -- Some things I've learned / Benjamin Spock -- Declaration on the birth of the child Larca / Michael Rossman -- Young people act : for themselves, for others. Community service projects / National Commission on Resources for Youth -- Three in enterprise / Jo Ann Levine -- Children as planners / Simon Nicholson -- Youth as advocates / Donald Cohen and Catherine Richards -- Items from FPS / Youth Liberation News Service -- Young meet old / Robert Stauff -- Personal actions / Leila Berg -- Bill of rights. Why not a Bill of rights for children? / John Holt -- Birthrights / Richard Farson -- One kid's own Bill of rights / from Ann Landers' column -- Youth Liberation Program / Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor --The UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child / United Nations -- Resources for consciousness-raising and action. Best further reading to become more capable of helping children and young people / The editors -- Where to get help, materials, and information / Dean Calabrese. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-357) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Destroying children -- 2. Oppression of the young -- 3. Birth of a movement -- 4. Young people act -for themselves, for others -- 5. Bills of rights -- 6. Resources for consciousness-raising and action. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Children's rights -- United States.
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Children's rights. |
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United States. |
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Child welfare -- United States.
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Child welfare. |
| Added Author |
Gross, Béatrice.
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Gross, Ronald.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Children's rights movement. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1977 (OCoLC)557845840 |
| ISBN |
0385110278 : $9.95. |
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9780385110273 |
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0385110286 (paperback) |
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9780385110280 (paperback) |
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