Children's Rights and Children's Development: An Integrated Approach - (Families, Law, and Society) by Jonathan Todres & Ursula Kilkelly (Hardcover)

About the Book

"This book is a novel, ground-breaking volume bringing together leading scholars of children's rights and child development to explore the connections between the two fields. The book seeks to forge opportunities to deepen understanding about children's rights in light of the scientific research on child development to inform fresh perspectives on research, law, and policy affecting children"--

Book Synopsis

Offers an assessment of how children's rights take shape and are realized at various stages of child development and, in turn, can and should inform law and policy

Children's rights and child development frameworks are critical to understanding children's lived experiences, advancing child wellbeing, and implementing children's rights. However, research in the two fields has proceeded largely on separate tracks. Children's Rights and Child Development seeks to forge opportunities to deepen understanding about children's rights in light of the scientific research on child development to inform fresh perspectives on research, law, and policy affecting children.

Drawing on existing literature, studies, and research, Children's Rights and Child Development provides an in-depth examination of the fundamental stages in childhood development--early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. The book goes beyond the often very general language in law and policies that considers children as a homogenous group. It delineates how the rights of young people can be understood at each stage of development and how this can, and should, inform law and policy on children's rights.

Integrating children's perspectives with the expertise from leading scholars in children's rights and child development, Todres and Kilkelly reveal how an integrated approach to child rights and child development can be most impactful to child advocacy. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in child advocacy, offering insight into how the rights of young people can be understood at different stages of development, in a developmentally appropriate and rights compliant manner.

Review Quotes

"Children's Rights and Children's Development wonderfully lives up to its promise to bring together expert scholars in these two fields to address the distinct stages of childhood. The book provides a rich account of differing disciplinary perspectives around what it identifies as the three main stages of child development: early, middle, and late childhood/adolescence."--Naomi R. Cahn, University of Virginia School of Law

About the Author

Jonathan Todres (Editor)
Jonathan Todres is Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law and has coauthored works such as The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law and Preventing Child Trafficking: A Public Health Approach.

Ursulla Kilkelly (Editor)
Ursula Kilkelly is Professor of Law at the School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland. She is author and collaborator on several children's rights texts, including Advancing Children's Rights in Detention, Independent Children's Rights Institutions, Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child into National Law, and Children's Rights in Ireland, 2nd Edition.