TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garbarino,James
AU  - Sigman,Garry
TI  - A child's right to a healthy environment
T2  - The Loyola University symposium on the human rights of children
SN  - 9781441967916 (ebook)
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Springer
KW  - Children's rights
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Children
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Social work
KW  - thema
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Child, developmental, and lifespan psychology
KW  - Education
KW  - Medicine: general issues
KW  - Paediatric medicine
KW  - Psychotherapy: child & adolescent
KW  - Age groups: children
KW  - lcsh
N1  - "This volume resulted from the inaugural Symposium of the Loyola University Human Rights of Children, held in April 2008, in Chicago".--Pref; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9781441967893; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - This powerfully expressed analysis examines the impediments to the goals of justice, safety, dignity, well-being and meaning in children's lives. These obstacles include factors as varied as disengaged parents and corrosive moral lessons from the media; 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 as varied as socioeconomic stressors, alienated, disengaged parents, and corrosive moral lessons from the media. The complex role of religious institutions in promoting and, in many cases, curtailing children's rights is analyzed, as are international efforts by advocates and policymakers to address major threats to 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 and special education, sociology, and other fields tasked with improving children's lives
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