The international convention on the righs of the child: A catalyst for innovative childcare policies

Human Rights Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 689-719

  Davis, Martha F ^a   Powell, Roslyn ^a  

^a Northeastern School of Law   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL LAW; SOCIAL POLICY;

EID: 0042737880     PISSN: 02750392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. BETTY FRIEDAN, THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE 390 (W.W. Norton & Co. 2001)
2. SHEILA TOBIAS, FACES OF FEMINISM: AN ACTIVIST'S REFLECTIONS ON THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT 215-16 (1997)
3. PATRICIA IRELAND, WHAT WOMEN WANT 306 (1996).
4. National Organization for Women, available at www.now.org/issues/family/index.html (visited 11 Feb. 2003)
5. National Women's Law Center, available at www.nwlc.org/ (visited 11 Feb. 2003)
6. NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, available at www.nowldef.org/html/issues/child/corner.shtml (visited 11 Feb. 2003)
7. Association of Junior League International, available at www.ajli.org/aboutus.html (visited 2 May 2003)
8. Women Work! The National Network for Women's Employment, available at www.womenwork.org/policyagenda2001.pdf (visited 2 May 2003).
9. Allen W. Hubsch, The Emerging Right to Education Under State Constitutional Law, 65 TEMP. L. REV. 1325 (1992)
10. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Status of Ratifications of the Principal International Human Rights Treaties, available at http://www.unhchr.ch/pdf/report.pdf
11. Howard Davidson, A Model Child Protection legal Reform Instrument: The Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Consistency with United States Law, 5 GEO. J. ON FIGHTING POVERTY 185, 185 (1998)
12. Cynthia Price Cohen & Susan Kilbourne, Jurisprudence of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: A Guide for Research and Analysis, 19 MICH. J. INT'L L. 633, 634 (1998).
13. Amnesty USA, Amnesty International Applauds Senate Committee Passage of Treaty on the Rights of Women (30 July 2002), available at www.amnestyusa.org/news/2002/usa07302002.html.
14. JOAN WILLIAMS, UNBENDING GENDER: WHY FAMILY AND WORK CONFLICT AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT (2000).
15. SHARON L. KAGAN & NANCY E. COHEN, NOT BY CHANCE: CREATING AN EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN 4-5 (Abridged Report, 1997)
16. SHEILA B. KAMERMAN & ALFRED J. KAHN, STARTING RIGHT, HOW AMERICA NEGLECTS ITS YOUNGEST CHILDREN AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT 4, 8 (1995).
17. Margaret R. Burchinal et al., Relating Quality of Center-Based Childcare to Early Cognitive and Language Development Longitudinally, 71 CHILD DEV., 339-57 (2000)
18. Frances A. Campbell et al., Early Childhood Education: Young Adult Outcomes from the Abecedarian Project, 6 APPLIED DEV. SCI. 42, 57 (2002).
19. Suzanne W. Helburn & Carollee Howes, Childcare Cost and Quality, 6 FUTURE OF CHILD. 62, 62-64, 78 (Summer/Fall 1996).
20. Karen Syma Czapanskiy, Parents, Children and Work-first Welfare Reform: Where is the C in TANF?, 61 MD. L. REV. 308, 354-56 (2002)
21. Dialogue with Citizens:Duration of Maternity Leave, available at http://europea.eu.int/scadplus/citizens/eu/d4.htm (last visited May 10, 2003)
22. Debbie O'Holloran, Ireland Emerges Last in European Table for Paternity Leave, The Irish Jobs Column, 6 Aug. 2002, available at http://www.exp.ie/advice/paternityrelease.html.
23. http://www.childpolicyintl.org.
24. Department of Family and Community services, Types of Childcare Services, available at http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/childcare/ families-nav.htm (visited 13 Feb. 2003).
25. Commonwealth of Australia: Family and Community Services, available at http://www.facs.gov.au (visited 11 Feb. 2003).
26. Graeme Russell & Lindy Bowman, Department of Family and Community Services, Work and Family: Current Thinking, Research and Practice 13 (Feb. 2000).
27. Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), Australian Workplace, available at www.workplace.gov.au (visited 13 Feb. 2003)
28. UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Initial Reports of States Parties: Australia, 16th Sess., U.N. Doc. CRC/C/8/Add.31 (1 Feb. 1996), http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf
29. Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finnish Family Policy:Support for the Daycare of Small Children, available at http://www.vn.fi/stm/english (last modified Jan. 1999)
30. Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finnish Family Policy: Direct Financial Support for Families, available at http://www.vn.fi.stm/english/ (last modified Jan. 1999).
31. Minna Salmi, Combining Work and Family: A Key Issue for Gender Equality, available at http://www.virtual.finlang.fi/info/english/women/work_family.html (last modified 8 Jan. 2003)
32. Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth and Family Policies: Country Report: France 4-5, Columbia University, available at http://www.childpolicyintl.org (last visited May 10, 2003)
33. KATHY O'HARA, COMPARATIVE FAMILY POLICY: EIGHT COUNTRY STORIES 24, 25 (1998)
34. Social News, Paternity Leave, A Success Story, available at http://www.info-france-usa.org/publi/nff/0207/soc.htm
35. http://www.unhchr.ch.
36. Jonathan Petersen, Childcare Issue Frames Welfare Reform Debate, L.A. TIMES, 6 Oct. 2002, at 122.
37. Abby J. Cohen, A Brief History of Federal Financing for Childcare in the United States, 6 FUTURE OF CHILD. 26, 32 (Summer/Fall 1996)
38. SONYA MICHEL, CHILDREN'S INTERESTS/MOTHERS' RIGHTS: THE SHAPING OF AMERICA'S CHILDCARE POLICY 247-51 (1999).
39. Denise Urias Levy & Sonya Michel, More Can be Less: Childcare and Welfare Reform in the United States, in CHILDCARE POLICY AT THE CROSSROADS: GENDER AND WELFARE STATE RESTRUCTURING 239, 245 (Sonya Michel & Rianne Mahon eds., 2002).
40. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, About Head Start, available at http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb/about/index.htm
41. Anne Mitchell et al., The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, Financing Childcare in the United States: An Expanded Catalog of Current Strategies, available at http://www.emkf.org/pdf/childcare2001.pdf (visited 14 Feb. 2003).
42. SUZANNE HELBURN ET AL., COST, QUALITY AND CHILD OUTCOMES IN CHILDCARE CENTERS 1 (Public Report, 1995).
43. Childcare Basics (April 2001), available at http://www.childrensdefense.org/cc_facts.htm.
44. Jo Ann C. Gong et al., Childcare in the Postwelfare Reform Era: Analysis and Strategies for Advocates, 32 CLEARINGHOUSE REV. 373, 373-74 (Jan.-Feb. 1999).
45. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services: Administration for Children and Families, Only 10 Percent of Eligible Families Get Childcare Help, available at http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/press/1999/cc98.htm (last modified 6 June 2002).
46. National Women's Law Center, Women's Stake in Improving the Availability, Affordability and Quality of Childcare and Early Education, 5 (April 2002).
47. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services: Administration for Children and Families, 1999 Head Start Fact Sheet, available at http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/opa/facts/heads.htm (visited May 2, 2003)
48. Children's Defense Fund, Head Start Reauthorization: Questions and Answers, 6 (Feb) 2003,
49. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Child & Adult Care Food Program, available at http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Care/Default.htm (visited 14 Feb. 2003).
50. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Program Facts & Frequently Asked Questions, available at http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/programs/cnp/childfaq.htm (visited 14 Aug. 2002)
51. National Partnership for Women and Families, State Family Leave Benefit Initiatives in the 2001-2002 State Legislatures: Making Family Leave More Affordable, available at http://www.nationalpartnership.org/
52. David P. Stewart, Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 5 GEO. J. FIGHTING POVERTY 161, 184 (1998).
53. Michael Ignatieff, No Exceptions?, LEGAL AFF., May-June 2002
54. Johan D. van der Vyver, American Exceptionalism: Human Rights, International Criminal Justice and National Self-Righteousness, 50 EMORY L.J. 775 (2001)
55. Dorothy Q. Thomas, Advancing Rights Protection in the United States: An Internationalized Advocacy Strategy, 9 HARV. HUM. RTS. J. 15 (1996).