The U.S. and the international children's rights crusade: Leader or laggard?

Journal of Social History

Volumn 38, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 955-963

  Mason, Mary Ann ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Graduate School   (United States)

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EID: 22544431644     PISSN: 00224529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2005.0069     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Cynthia Cohen, "United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Developing International Norms to Create a New World for Children," in Children as Equals, Kathleen Alaimo and Brian Klug, eds. (New York, 2002), p. 49-69.
2. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), Article 12.
3. Cohen, pp. 49-49
4. Roger J. R. Levesque, "Child Advocacy in the United States and the Power of International Human Rights Law," in Children as Equals, p. 183.
5. Mary Ann Mason, From Father's Property to Children's Rights: The History of Child Custody in the United States, pp. 1-47.
6. Richard B. Morris, Government and Labor in Early America (New York, 1946), p. 391.
7. Mason, p.39.
8. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 2:262.
9. See, for example, Mass. Records (1853), 2:8-9.
10. Records of Essex County (1921), 8:302-303.
11. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Law of England, 1:454-60.
12. As quoted in Lois G. Carr, "The Development of the Maryland Orphans' Court, 1654-1715," in R. Land, L. Carr and J. Papenfuse, eds. Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland (Baltimore, 1977), p. 49.
13. Lawrence v. Speed, 2 Bibb 401 (1811), in Robert Bremner, Children and Youth in America, 4 vols. (Cambridge, 1970), 1:332.
14. Mason, From Father's Property to Children's Rights, p. 68.
15. People v. Gates, 57 Barb. 296, quoting People v. Mercein, 3 Hill 399 (N.Y.1842).
16. Stigall v. Stigall, N.J. Law 286, 288(1847).
17. Kathleen Alaimo, "Historical Roots of Children's Rights in Europe and the United States," in Children as Equals, p. 16.
18. See, for example, California Sensitive Services Act, Ca. Civil Code.
19. See Christina Lyon and Nigel Parker, "Children's rights and the Children Act of 1989," in Franklin, ed. Handbook of Children's Rights.
20. Cohen, p. 65.