| Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children''s Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate Subjects: Children’s rights -- United States -- History; Children -- Legal status laws etc. -- United States; African American children -- Civil rights -- History; Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989); Hidden in Plain Sight tells the tragic untold story of children's rights in America. It asks why the United States today, alone among nations, rejects the most universally embraced human-rights document in history, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This book is a call to arms for America to again be a leader in human rights, and to join the rest of the civilized world in recognizing that the thirst for justice is not for adults alone. Barbara Bennett Woodhouse is the L.Q.C. Lamar Professor of Law and codirector of the Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic at Emory Law School. She is also the David H. Levin Chair Emeritus in Family Law at the University of Florida. |