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UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
Author(s) -
Hale Brenda
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
family court review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1744-1617
pISSN - 1531-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-1617.2006.00093.x
Subject(s) - corporal punishment , punishment (psychology) , human rights , convention on the rights of the child , convention , political science , child rights , context (archaeology) , meaning (existential) , democracy , law , state (computer science) , order (exchange) , psychology , sociology , politics , social psychology , paleontology , finance , algorithm , computer science , economics , psychotherapist , biology
This article discusses the meaning of children's rights in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Both place primary responsibility for the upbringing and education of children on their parents and families. The freedom of parents to bring up their children in their own way is an important component of a liberal democracy founded on respect for individual differences. So if parents believe in moderate corporal punishment as a means of educating their children in their own religious beliefs, is the state justified in banning such punishment either in school or in the home in order to protect the children's rights? This article discusses the children's rights which are protected by doing so.