Freedom's orphans : contemporary liberalism and the fate of American children
Argues that the expansion of rights for adults has come at a high and generally unnoticed cost. In championing new "lifestyle" freedoms, liberal theorists and jurists have ignored, forgotten, or discounted the competing interests of children. Tubbs reviews important currents of liberal thought, including the ideas of Isaiah Berlin, Ronald Dworkin, and Susan Moller Okin. He also analyzes three key developments in American civil liberties: the emergence of the "right to privacy" in sexual and reproductive matters; the abandonment of the traditional standard for obscenity prosecutions; and the gradual acceptance of the doctrine of "strict separation" between religion and public life. [from publisher description]
Print Book, English, ©2007
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2007
x, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
9780691122984, 9780691134703, 0691122989, 0691134707
80358412
How the "moral reticence" of contemporary liberalism affects children
Children and the false charms of liberal feminism
The "right to privacy" and some forgotten interests of children
Conflicting images of children in First Amendment jurisprudence
Looking backwards and forward
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