Book contents
- The Child’s Right to Development
- The Child’s Right to Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Embedding the Protection of ‘Child Development’ into International Children’s Rights Law
- 2 Creating the Right to Development of Children
- 3 The Interpretation of the Right to Development by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- 4 Exploring the Meanings of Human and Child Development
- 5 A New Framework for Analysing the Child’s Right to Development
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
1 - Embedding the Protection of ‘Child Development’ into International Children’s Rights Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2019
- The Child’s Right to Development
- The Child’s Right to Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Embedding the Protection of ‘Child Development’ into International Children’s Rights Law
- 2 Creating the Right to Development of Children
- 3 The Interpretation of the Right to Development by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- 4 Exploring the Meanings of Human and Child Development
- 5 A New Framework for Analysing the Child’s Right to Development
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter analyses the different ways in which child development and related concepts – such as autonomy, capacity, and agency – have been understood and interpreted in child law scholarship during the last century. The chapter begins in the nineteenth century, at a time when the legal conception of ‘the child’ in the Western world was changing, and the law, as a social agent, began to embrace new positionalities of children in society. The view that children are the property of their fathers was replaced by romantic middle-class ideas of children as a source of pleasure and joy for their parents. Legal measures that reflected political interests in children’s lives and futures were introduced, particularly in the realm of welfare, education and health.1
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- The Child's Right to Development , pp. 20 - 54Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019