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The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
Re-understanding the Child’s Right to Identity, 2016
The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
Re-understanding the Child’s Right to Identity, 2016
The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
Alongside the child’s need “to become,” to develop and change, to fulfill dreams and plans, there... more Alongside the child’s need “to become,” to develop and change, to fulfill dreams and plans, there is another need. This is the child’s need to be his authentic self and to be recognized as “somebody” when simply being that self. A children’s rights regime should ideally be responsive to the complementary needs “to be” and the need “to become” within the right to identity. Granting the right to autonomy, responding to the child’s need “to become,” and overcoming adult paternalism is often perceived as the most advanced and most problematic stage in the evolution of child law. This perception is misleading. The need to be one’s self is sometimes neglected by advocates of children’s rights, though it is well embedded in social science literature. It is suggested that this is because of Western culture’s preoccupation with material progress. In order for the child to fulfill his unique human potential, to arise to a supra animal motivation when exercising his rights, we must offer the c...
Re-understanding the Child’s Right to Identity, 2016
The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
Law and PsychologyCurrent Legal Issues Volume 9, 2006
Society’s unacknowledged conflict over its collective memory and the question of responsibility t... more Society’s unacknowledged conflict over its collective memory and the question of responsibility to the Other encourages the politicization of empathy towards children . What we fail to acknowledge is how dynamic and conflictual the process of remembering and othering is. This paper describes how professionals who fail to reflect on this conflict can also neglect to respond to individual suffering. The paper also argues that alienated doctrinal thinking, which cannot appreciate the value in of face-to-face dialogue with the individual when constructing legal norms, in fact facilitates the rationalization of politicized empathy and abrogates our sense of injustice. Dangerously, from the author's perspective, such doctrinal thinking can also be couched in rights rhetoric. Two partially overlapping issues illustrate this paper's thesis: 1. The protection of family life for children from disadvantaged homes. 2. The public response to the past victimization of young offenders. Drawing primarily on the autobiographical opening vignette, the paper first attempts to explain how doctrinal thinking may perpetuate alienation from the Other and illustrates how the law is as an author of memory, tying this to the challenge of psychological mindedness mainly presented in the last decade by the movement for Therapeutic Jurisprudence. It is also explained how law can be more than a rationalization of selective remembering and subsequent politicized empathy, and how we can struggle more mindfully over the law’s construction of collective memory. The paper does not purport to offer a comprehensive discussion of the law in any one country, but draws rather on examples from different countries. The examples are not brought to prove the author's thesis but to allow the reader the opportunity to be convinced by the feasibility of the thesis.
The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
Re-understanding the Child’s Right to Identity, 2016
The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
Re-understanding the Child’s Right to Identity, 2016
The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
Alongside the child’s need “to become,” to develop and change, to fulfill dreams and plans, there... more Alongside the child’s need “to become,” to develop and change, to fulfill dreams and plans, there is another need. This is the child’s need to be his authentic self and to be recognized as “somebody” when simply being that self. A children’s rights regime should ideally be responsive to the complementary needs “to be” and the need “to become” within the right to identity. Granting the right to autonomy, responding to the child’s need “to become,” and overcoming adult paternalism is often perceived as the most advanced and most problematic stage in the evolution of child law. This perception is misleading. The need to be one’s self is sometimes neglected by advocates of children’s rights, though it is well embedded in social science literature. It is suggested that this is because of Western culture’s preoccupation with material progress. In order for the child to fulfill his unique human potential, to arise to a supra animal motivation when exercising his rights, we must offer the c...
Re-understanding the Child’s Right to Identity, 2016
The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's ... more The book envisions legal and social change in which policies and practice protect children's sense of belonging, dignify their narratives, protect their need to be authentic beings and nourish hope for change and growth in children at risk and their families.
Law and PsychologyCurrent Legal Issues Volume 9, 2006
Society’s unacknowledged conflict over its collective memory and the question of responsibility t... more Society’s unacknowledged conflict over its collective memory and the question of responsibility to the Other encourages the politicization of empathy towards children . What we fail to acknowledge is how dynamic and conflictual the process of remembering and othering is. This paper describes how professionals who fail to reflect on this conflict can also neglect to respond to individual suffering. The paper also argues that alienated doctrinal thinking, which cannot appreciate the value in of face-to-face dialogue with the individual when constructing legal norms, in fact facilitates the rationalization of politicized empathy and abrogates our sense of injustice. Dangerously, from the author's perspective, such doctrinal thinking can also be couched in rights rhetoric. Two partially overlapping issues illustrate this paper's thesis: 1. The protection of family life for children from disadvantaged homes. 2. The public response to the past victimization of young offenders. Drawing primarily on the autobiographical opening vignette, the paper first attempts to explain how doctrinal thinking may perpetuate alienation from the Other and illustrates how the law is as an author of memory, tying this to the challenge of psychological mindedness mainly presented in the last decade by the movement for Therapeutic Jurisprudence. It is also explained how law can be more than a rationalization of selective remembering and subsequent politicized empathy, and how we can struggle more mindfully over the law’s construction of collective memory. The paper does not purport to offer a comprehensive discussion of the law in any one country, but draws rather on examples from different countries. The examples are not brought to prove the author's thesis but to allow the reader the opportunity to be convinced by the feasibility of the thesis.
I explore children's rights starting from films and moving to everyday experience of my self and ... more I explore children's rights starting from films and moving to everyday experience of my self and my students intertwining from the first moment personal narrative with theoretical knowledge offering a hands on approach
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