Social:Index of children's rights articles

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Articles related to children's rights include:


A

  • Abandonment - when a parent, guardian, or person in charge of a child either deserts a child without any regard for the child's physical health, safety or welfare and with the intention of wholly abandoning the child, or in some instances, fails to provide necessary care for a child living under their roof.[1]
  • Adultcentrism - The exaggerated egocentrism of adults.[2]
  • Adultism - A predisposition towards adults, which some see as biased against children, youth, and all young people who aren't addressed or viewed as adults.[3]
  • ADHD - A persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity, as well as forgetfulness, poor impulse control or impulsivity, and distractibility.[4][5]
  • Age of consent - The minimum age at which a person is considered to be capable of legally giving informed consent to any contract or behaviour regulated by law with another person.
  • Age of criminal responsibility - The age after which the defense of infancy is no longer an excuse.
  • Age of majority - The threshold of adulthood as it is conceptualized in law.
  • Anorexia nervosa - A psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight.

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C

D

  • Decision making

E

F

G

  • Genital integrity
  • Genital mutilation

H

  • Health care
  • Healthy diet
  • Homelessness

I

J

  • Juvenile court

M

  • Maternity rights
  • Military use of children

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R

S

T

U

V

  • Verdingkinder - Swiss children taken away from their impoverished parents, usually to work on farms as slave labor and often mistreated.

Y

See also

  • Children's rights movement
    • Timeline of children's rights in the United States
    • Timeline of children's rights in the United Kingdom
  • Children's rights law
    • Child labor laws in the United States
  • List of international and European law on child protection and migration

References

  1. "Child Abandonment". Thomson Reuters. http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/child-abandonment.html. 
  2. Verhellen, E. (1994). Convention on the rights of the child: Background, motivation, strategies, main themes. Leuven/Apeldoorn: Garant.
  3. Fletcher, A. (2006) Washington Youth Voice Handbook. Olympia, WA: CommonAction.
  4. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of [American Psychiatric Association, 2000.
  5. Psychiatric Association|the American Psychiatric Association, Fourth Edition, htm Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).] Behavenet.com. Retrieved on December 11, 2006.