Book contents
- A Magna Carta for Children?
- A Magna Carta for Children?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Hamlyn Trust
- The Hamlyn Lectures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude
- Part I Is it Wrong to Think of Children as Human Beings?
- Part II Even Lawyers Were Children Once
- Part III A Magna Carta for Children
- 13 Rethinking Children’s Rights
- 14 Alternatives to Rights: Or Are They?
- 15 A Magna Carta for Children?
- 16 Rethinking Principles and Concepts
- 17 Conclusion
- 18 Coda: A Child of Our Time
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - Alternatives to Rights: Or Are They?
from Part III - A Magna Carta for Children
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- A Magna Carta for Children?
- A Magna Carta for Children?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Hamlyn Trust
- The Hamlyn Lectures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude
- Part I Is it Wrong to Think of Children as Human Beings?
- Part II Even Lawyers Were Children Once
- Part III A Magna Carta for Children
- 13 Rethinking Children’s Rights
- 14 Alternatives to Rights: Or Are They?
- 15 A Magna Carta for Children?
- 16 Rethinking Principles and Concepts
- 17 Conclusion
- 18 Coda: A Child of Our Time
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
It tends to be assumed that a rights-based approach inevitably means resort to the CRC at the very least as a measuring rod. It is as if we are saying that after a long struggle we eventually got to our goal and that the norms in this are the only conclusions to which we could possibly have come. But, as Tobin (2013) points out.
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- A Magna Carta for Children?Rethinking Children's Rights, pp. 334 - 358Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020