What do you mean by ‘paternalism’?
Paternalism is the idea that certain people or groups need to be controlled (in a benevolent fatherly way) for their own good.
discrimination
What is Taking Children Seriously?
Taking Children Seriously is a new VIEW of children – a non-paternalistic view: like other groups of human beings, children are people, not pets, prisoners or property. Full people whose lives are their own, not a different kind of person – full, equal humans who should no more be coerced and manipulated and moulded and shaped by others than we adults should be.
Can an emotion be wrong?
Everyone agrees that behaving angrily can be wrong in some circumstances, but what about being angry itself? Can an emotion (or the thought-content associated with the feeling) be wrong in itself?
Is Taking Children Seriously revolutionary?
Taking Children Seriously is neither utopian nor revolutionary. It is fallibilist and respects tradition as well as the growth of knowledge.
Criticism of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Compulsory ‘rights’?