Children's Rights by Country - Children's Rights in the United Kingdom, Children's Rights in the United States (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Children's rights in the United Kingdom, Children's rights in the United States, Timeline of young people's rights in the United Kingdom, Timeline of young people's rights in the United States, Children's Commissioner for England, Fathers' rights movement in the USA, US ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Gillick competence, Advocates for Children in Therapy, NORM-UK, Children's rights in Mali, Children's Hearing, Pregnant patients' rights in the United States, Children Act 1989, Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People, Children's rights in Colombia, Children Act 2004, White House Conference on Children and Youth, Scottish Children's Reporter Administration, Big Mama, Getting it Right for Every Child - GIRFEC, Every Child Matters, Children's rights in Chile, Children's Commissioner for Wales, Commissioner for Children and Young People, Northern Ireland, Childcare Act 2006, Wales child abuse scandal, Takeover Day. Excerpt: The timeline of children's rights in the United Kingdom includes a variety of events that are both political and grassroots in nature. The UK government maintains a position that UNCRC is not legally enforceable and is hence 'aspirational' only, although a 2003 ECHR ruling states that, "The human rights of children and the standards to which all governments must aspire in realising these rights for all children are set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child." Eighteen years after ratification, the four Children's Commissioners in the UK (including those for the three devolved administrations) have united in calling for adoption of the Convention into domestic legislation, making children's rights recognised and legally binding. Opponents of children's rights often raise the spectre of rights without responsibilities. The children's rights movement asse...