Neglected children our greatest crisis

Article Abstract:

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno feels that the greatest crisis facing the US and the greatest challenge in her position as the nation's key law enforcer is children's welfare and remedying society's neglect of children. Children's rights, including adequate housing and medical care, a quality education and future job opportunities, must be key to all civil rights lawyers' agendas in the 1990s if the cycle of inner-city poverty and violence is to be broken. We must push for a more accessible legal system that encourages citizen participation and empowers clients. Legislative reform is also needed.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Speeches, lectures and essays, Transcript, Reno, Janet, A.B.A. Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities

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Recognizing children's rights: lessons from South Africa

Article Abstract:

Section 28 of South Africa's 1996 Constitution guaranteed children an array of rights and protections. Compared to the US Constitution's protection for children's rights, South Africa's Constitution is more comprehensive and less dependent on case law. Apartheid, and the struggle to overcome it, continue to influence South Africa's effort to protect children's rights. South Africa's experience shows that incorporating new rights into existing law requires trust in judicial interpretation.

South Africa, Comparative analysis, Constitutional law

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The treatment of children as chattel in recent adoption decisions

Article Abstract:

Several recent cases in which adopted children were taken from their adoptive families in favor of their biological parents effectively reduced children to the level of chattel. These cases, including the Baby Richard and In re Brumfield cases in Illinois, resulted when courts elevated the rights of biological parents above the rights of the children they had previously abandoned. Children will continue to suffer in this way until courts recognize their rights.

United States, Cases, Custody of children, Child custody, Adoption

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