Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDINGS OF CHILDREN
- PART II RESPONSIBILITIES OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS
- Chapter 9 Work, labor, and chores
- Chapter 10 Honor your father and your mother
- Chapter 11 Will I have Jewish grandchildren?
- Chapter 12 Linking past and present
- Chapter 13 Orphans and adoption
- Chapter 14 Second-hand children
- Chapter 15 Christianity's mixed contributions to children's rights
- Chapter 16 Children's rights in modern Islamic and international law
- Select bibliography
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- References
Chapter 15 - Christianity's mixed contributions to children's rights
Traditional teachings, modern doubts
from PART II - RESPONSIBILITIES OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDINGS OF CHILDREN
- PART II RESPONSIBILITIES OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS
- Chapter 9 Work, labor, and chores
- Chapter 10 Honor your father and your mother
- Chapter 11 Will I have Jewish grandchildren?
- Chapter 12 Linking past and present
- Chapter 13 Orphans and adoption
- Chapter 14 Second-hand children
- Chapter 15 Christianity's mixed contributions to children's rights
- Chapter 16 Children's rights in modern Islamic and international law
- Select bibliography
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- References
Summary
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a landmark in the modern international protection of children's rights. Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, its fifty-four articles and two Optional Protocols set out a lengthy catalogue of rights for children. The CRC bans all discrimination against children, including on grounds of their birth status. It provides children with rights to life, to a name, to a social identity, to the care and nurture of both parents; to education, health care, recreation, rest, and play; to freedom of association, expression, thought, conscience, and religion; and to freedom from neglect or negligent treatment, from physical and sexual abuse, from cruel and inhumane treatment, and from compulsory military service. The CRC adds special protections for children who are refugees, displaced, orphaned, kidnapped, enslaved, or addicted; for children involuntarily separated from their parents, families, and home communities; for children with disabilities; and for children drawn into a state's legal system.
The CRC is not the first modern international statement on children's rights, although it is the most comprehensive. It builds in part on provisions in the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1924) and the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959). It incorporates and imputes directly to children a number of the rights provisions already set out in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights or UDHR (1948) and elaborated in the twin 1966 international covenants on civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. And it reflects and confirms a series of other international laws and treaties that facilitate international adoption, immigration, and education, and that prohibit child labor, pornography, prostitution, trafficking, soldiering, and more.
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- Children, Adults, and Shared ResponsibilitiesJewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives, pp. 272 - 291Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012