children's RIGHTS

Jane Fortin Expert explains that “It was Foster and Freed, writing in the 1970s, who claimed that adults exploited their power over children and that children’s inferior status should be radically reassessed” Was this the catalyst and sign post for the addressing of children’s’ rights?  Did this generate decision making on policy matters and laws? There was the “landmark decision of Re Gault (1967) in which the court ruled that ‘neither the Fourteenth Amendment nor the Bill of Rights is for adults alone’ and that as ‘persons’, children were entitled to claim the same procedural safeguards as those offered to adults by the United States Constitution” This is only the beginning of an issue which has far reaching implications and effects.  That a teen was taken into custody by a sheriff for allegedly making an obscene phone call is questionable and begs the question, what rights did the child have in that situation. From Facts and Case Summary (of United States Courts) “Gerald (“Jerry”) Gault was a 15 year-old accused of making an obscene telephone call to a neighbor, Mrs. Cook, on June 8, 1964.  After Mrs. Cook filed a complaint, Gault and a friend, Ronald Lewis, were arrested and taken to the Children’s Detention Home” This was the ruling of the court and stands as such. From the same source it is stated that “An adult charged with the same crime would have received a maximum sentence of a $50 fine and two months in jail.  The report was not disclosed to Gault or his parents.  At the conclusion of the hearing, the judge committed Gault to juvenile detention for six years, until he turned 21” If one is a children’s rights advocate, that same person would think of this as excessive and unfair situation.  Fortin reports that “Many writers have voiced considerable concern over the liberationists’ failure to accord sufficient attention to the physical and mental differences between childhood and adulthood” There are so many questions about children’s rights and opinions are entrenched, people have their heels dug in.  This blog post is only the beginning of an eye into the issue of children’s rights. Children have rights that should be sustainable, children are not chattel.  I will look further into this matter as Fortin presents it, in future posts.                                                  

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