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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: Child's Right to a Healthy Environment
  name:
    name part: Garbarino, James.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sigman, Garry.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 235 p. 19 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Perspectives on Healthy Environments for Children -- “To Such as These, the Kingdom of Heaven Belongs”: Religious Faith as a Foundation for Children’s Rights -- Preventing Childhood Malaria: Strategies That Work Today and Directions for the Future -- A Case Study of a Partnership in Chicago to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning -- Why Is Protecting the Human Rights of Children so Difficult? -- Spare the Rod: Why Are More American Children Victims and Perpetrators of Violence Than Those of Any Other Developed Country? -- Promoting a Protective Environment for Children Affected by Disaster and War -- When Rights and Needs Collide -- Human Rights as a Tool for Social Change -- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Instrument for Creating a Healthy Environment for the Child -- The Right to a Family Environment for Children of Prisoners -- A Child’s Right to an Environment That Prevents Obesity: Ethical Considerations -- Anchoring and Empowering Children: A Child’s Right to Participation Within a Healthy Environment -- Cultural and Social Impediments to a Healthy Environment for Children -- Child Slavery and the Global Economy: Historical Perspectives on a Contemporary Problem -- In Harm’s Way in America: The Burden of Gun Violence -- The Right to a Healthy Social Environment: Protecting Children from Social Toxicity.
  note: edited by James Garbarino, Garry Sigman.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Pediatrics
  subject:
    topic: Psychiatry
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Social work
  subject:
    topic: Child psychology
  subject:
    topic: School psychology
  subject:
    topic: Medicine & Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Psychiatry
  subject:
    topic: Pediatrics
  subject:
    topic: Child and School Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Education, general
  subject:
    topic: Medicine/Public Health, general
  subject:
    topic: Social Work
  classification: RC434.2-574
  classification: 616.89
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Loyola University Symposium on the Human Rights of Children ; 1
  identifier: 9781441967916
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6791-6
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    record creation date: 100917
    record change date: 20151204175028.0
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