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The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship on a broad range of topics covering the life course of humans from before birth to adulthood, by leading scholars in each area. Authors present and analyze the law and science pertaining to reproduction, prenatal life (including fetal exposure to toxic substances and abortion), parentage (including biology-based rights, background checks on birth pa...

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In Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice, James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters examine homeschooling's history, its methods, and the fundamental questions at the root of the heated debate over whether and how the state should oversee and regulate it. The authors trace the evolution of homeschooling and the law relating to it from before America's founding to the present day. In the process they analyze the many ar...

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How can we end the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in the US's urban ghettos? This ground-breaking and controversial book is the first to provide a child-centered perspective on the subject by combining a wealth of social science information with sophisticated normative analysis to support novel reforms-to child protection law and practice, family law, and zoning- that would quickly end that cycle. The rub is that the refor...

This book provides a child-centered perspective on the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in urban ghettos by combining a wealth of information with sophisticated normative analysis.

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A comprehensive and up-to-date compilation and analysis of Virginia's laws governing wills, trusts, decedents' estates, and end-of-life decision making, with expert commentary. An invaluable resource for libraries and law offices, this volume also serves well as a coursebook for law school class instruction and is an accessible guidebook for more sophisticated non-lawyer users. Summary of contents: Introduction Chapter One: The Probate Est...

This work of applied moral philosophy develops a comprehensive account of how adults as moral agents ascribe moral status to beings.

This 2006 book is a philosophical analysis of children's rights with regard to the legal system.

Observing the storm of recent debates around school vouchers, James G. Dwyer concludes that the welfare of children has been routinely subordinated to the interests and supposed rights of various groups of adults-parents, teachers, taxpayers, and...

Despair over the reported inadequacies of public education leads many people to consider religious schools as an alternative. James G. Dwyer demonstrates, however, that religious schooling is almost completely unregulated and that common pedagogical practices in fundamentalist Christian and Catholic schools may be damaging to children. He presents evidence of excessive restriction of children's basic liberties, stifling of intellectual develop...

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This book is a philosophical analysis of children's rights with regard to the legal system.

This work of applied moral philosophy develops a comprehensive account of how adults as moral agents ascribe moral status to beings.