Children, Parents, and Politics (Paperback)

List of contributors; Introduction; Part I. What Children Are: 1. Children in history: concepts of nature and society Ludmilla Jordanova; 2. When does childhood begin William Ruddick; 3. Thinking about children Judith Hughes; Part II. The Child in the Democratic Polity: 4. The family, democratic politics and the question of authority Jean Bethke Elshtain; 5. Teenagers and other children Richard Lindley; 6. Justice between generations Geoffrey Scarre; 7. Children and the mammalian order Stephen R. L. Clark; 8. The right to found a family John Harris; Part III. The Worth of Children: 9. Child art and the place of children in society Gareth B. Matthews; 10. Should all seriously disabled infants live Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer; 11. Why child pornography is wrong Tom Regan; Index.