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Children''s Human Rights in the USA: Challenges and Opportunities

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By (author): Yvonne Vissing

This book critically examines why a human rights framework would improve the wellbeing and status of young people. It explores childrens rights to provision, protection, and participation from human rights and clinical sociological perspectives, and from historical to contemporary events. It discusses how different ideologies have shaped the way we view children and their place in society, and how, despite the rhetoric of children's protection, people under 18 years of age experience more poverty, violence, and oppression than other group in society. The book points to the fact that the USA is the only member of the United Nations not to ratify a childrens human rights treaty; and the impact of this decision finds US children less healthy and less safe than children in other developed countries. It shows how a rights-respecting framework could be created to improve the lives of our youngest citizens and the future of democracy. 
Authored by a renowned clinical sociologist and international human rights scholar, this book is of interest to researchers, students, social workers and policymakers working in the area of children's wellbeing and human rights.  See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Jul 2024
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Publication City/Country: Switzerland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783031308505

About Yvonne Vissing

Yvonne Vissing Ph.D. is a clinical sociologist focusing on pediatrics and community sociology. She is the author of 15 books about children's wellbeing and is the US policy chair for the Hope for Children UN Convention of the Rights of the Child Policy Center. She is a member of the Human Rights Council for the American Association for the Advancement of Science member of the Steering Committee of the Human Rights Educators USA former National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and 2021 fellow at the University of Connecticut Dodd Human Rights Center Dialogue and Democracy Initiative.  She is a former board member of the National Coalition for the Homeless and the New Hampshire Juvenile Parole Board as well as a former family-child mental health counselor in Kentucky. She received the 2021 Distinguished Career Award in the sociology of children for the American Sociological Associations section on Children and Youth. Vissing is professor and founding director of the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies at Salem State University USA where she is also co-founder of its Department of Healthcare Studies. Her research interests include human rights clinical sociology mental health homelessness community development instrument development public health violence social movements sociology of law mediation and the use of dialogue to address community problems. She is also a Santa Claus expert who owns a small horse farm in New Hampshire.

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