Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy
Grahn-Farley, Maria![Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/451/45137164/CHSBZCOP0345137164.jpg)
Arguing for a pro-democratic approach in authoritarian times, this book challenges the focus on age in identifying children in child rights. It argues that, even for the purposes of a benevolent rights regime, adopting a monist construction of child identity artificially separates the law from reality, potentially foreclosing children's democratic deliberative agency in self-identification. An essential feature of other human rights regimes is...