The nationwide effort to reduce bullying in U.S. schools can be regarded as part of larger civil and human rights movements that have provided children with many of the rights afforded to adult citizens, including protection from harm in the workplace. Many bullied children find that their schools are hostile environments, but civil rights protections against harassment apply only to children w...

Bioethics committees have issued guidelines that medical interventions should be permissible only in cases of clinically verifiable disease, deformity, or injury. Furthermore, once the existence of one or more of these requirements has been proven, the proposed therapeutic procedure must reasonably be expected to result in a net benefit to the patient. As an exception to this rule, some prophyl...

As the United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states, People with disabilities have the same general health care needs as other patients, but they are more like to find health care providers’ skill and facilities inadequate, to be denied health care, and to be treated badly in the health care systems [1]. In the United Kingdom several inquires report deaths of peopl...

This paper uses hypothetical contractarianism to consider the value of children’s rights laws as a means of protecting children. Laws protecting children from their parents have the unintended but predictable consequence of making child-rearing less desirable for some parents and thereby reducing the number of children born. Such laws therefore produce a trade-off between the expected wellbeing...

The open access edited volume addresses children’s ability to act and their rights in the digital world. focus is on position of children.

Abstract The discourse on children’s rights has reconceptualised children and childhood in terms of human integrity ontology. However, there are ongoing questions over its universal applicability. In this paper I offer a critical examination rights, focusing the uneven distribution rather than spread which dominates discourse. focuses educational frames reference that limit access to including ...