Children's Rights and Traditional Values

Contents: Editors' introduction; You have to start somewhere?, Michael King; Children's rights: balancing traditional values and cultural plurality, Geraldine Van Bueren; Children's rights, cultural diversity and private international law, William Duncan; The interpretation of the concept The best interest of the child? in Israel, Yehiel Kaplan; A note on children's rights in Islamic law, His Honour Judge David Pearl; Honour thy Father and thy Mother?: children's rights and children's duties, Andrew Bainham; Rights and autonomy or the best interests of the child?, Ze'ev Falk; Multiculturalism, parental choice and traditional values: a comment on religious education in Israel, Stephen Goldstein; Child-parent-state: the absence of community in the Courts' approach to education, Leora Bilsky; Tradition and the right to education: the case of the Ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, Leslie Sebba and Varda Shiffer; A child's right to privacy or open justice?, James Michael; Who is the Father? access to information on genetic identity, Katherine O'Donovan; Crimes of war, culture, and children's rights: the case of female Palestinian detainees under Israeli military occupation, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian; Protection for whom and from what? protection proceedings and the voice of the child at risk, Ya'ir Ronen; The child's right to make mistakes - criminal responsibility and the immature minor, Gillian Douglas; Traditional values, children's rights and social justice: English youth justice in the 1990s, Wayne Morrison; Afterword: choosing rights for children, David Nelken.