It’s a startling reality that more American children are victims—and perpetrators—of violence than those of any other developed country. Yet unlike the other nations, the United States has yet to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Compelling, readable, and interdisciplinary, A Child’s Right to a Healthy Environment provides an abundance of skilled observation, important findings, and keen insights to place children’s well-being in the vanguard of human rights concerns, both in the United States and globally. Within this volume, authors examine the impediments to the crucial goals of justice, safety, dignity, well-being, and meaning in children’s lives, factors asvaried as socioeconomic stressors, alienated, disengaged parents, and corrosive moral lessons from the media. The complex role of religious institutions inpromoting and, in many cases, curtailing children’s rights is analyzed, as are international efforts by advocates and policymakers to address major threatsto children’s development, including: War and natural disasters. Environmental toxins (e.g., malaria and lead poisoning). The child obesity epidemic. Gun violence. Child slavery and trafficking. Toxic elements in contemporary culture. A Child’s Right to a Healthy Environment is a powerful call to action for researchers and professionals in developmental, clinical child, school, and educational psychology as well as psychiatry, pediatrics, social work, general andspecial education, sociology, and other fields tasked with improving children’s lives. Is the premiere volume in Springer’s new series from the Loyola University Symposium on the Human Rights of Children Examines, from multidisciplinary perspectives, how important issues that affect the physical and mental health of children can be understood from a human rights perspective Provides a much-needed scientist-practitioner perspective on the important social justice issue of ensuring a healthy environment for the world’s children and youth INDICE: Preface.- Part I - Perspectives on Healthy Environments for Children.- To Such as These the Kingdom of Heaven Belongs: Religion and Faith as Foundation for Children’s Rights.- Preventing Childhood Malaria: Strategies That Work Today and Directions for the Future .- A Case Study of a Partnership in Chicago to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning.- Part II - Why Is Protecting the Human Rights of Children so Difficult?.- Spare the Rod: Why Are More American Children Victims and Perpetrators of Violence Than Those of Any Other DevelopedCountry?.- Promoting a Protective Environment for Children Affected by Disaster and War.- When Rights and Needs Collide.- Part III - Human Rights as a Toolfor Social Change.- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Instrument for Creating a Healthy Environment for the Child.- The Right to a Family Environment for Children of Prisoners .- A Child’s Right to an Environment that Prevents Obesity: Ethical Considerations .- Anchoring and Empowering Children:A Child’s Right to Participation Within a Healthy Environment .- Part IV - Cultural and Social Impediments to a Healthy Environment for Children.- Child Slavery and the Global Economy: Historical Perspectives on a Contemporary Problem.- In Harm’s Way in America: The Burden of Gun Violence.- The Right to a Healthy Social Environment: Protecting Children from Social Toxicity.
- ISBN: 978-1-4419-6789-3
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 235
- Fecha Publicación: 29/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés