Janet W. Steverson – författare

This is the third volume in the three volume collection Children and the Law . Volume three, Child v.s. State , explores the rights of children against the state. Areas treated in this volume include freedom of speech, (the restriction of newspapers, music, arm-bands, etc.) the right of a minor to refuse medical treatment, and a minor's right to contraception and abortion with ad without parental consent. This volume also includes the rights of minors to separate from their legal parents; the rights of children to know their biological parents in the case of adoption; and the rights of children resisting repatriation to relatives outside the United States.

Children of the Law reprints the most significant court cases affecting children in three key areas of American law, as well as most of the significant legal commentary surrounding these cases. Topics covered range from restrictions on gay and lesbian adoption and use of corporal punishment to a minor's right to contraception, abortion, medical care, and free speech, and the state's obligation to protect children, jail children, school children, and intervene on a child's behalf. Available as a full set or individually, the volumes include: * Vol. 1: The State as Child Protector352pp*[0-415-93804-X* Vol. 2:The State and theSchooling of Children352 pp*[0-415-93805-8* Vol 3. Child vs. State352pp*[0-415-93806-6] _

This is the first volume in the three volume collection entitled Children and the Law. Volume one, The State asChild Protector , focuses on the obligations of the state to ensure the protection of children. It treats the obligation of the state to intervene on behalf of a child. Issues include the rights of parents to educate children, to retain custody of children, and to inflict corporal and noncorporal punishment on children. Volume one also covers the state's lack of obligation to intervene in the private sphere of the family, i.e. the right of the state to remain neutral in cases of abuse, threat, or in cases where decisions made by the head of a household might appear to compromise the welfare or best interest of a child.

This is the second volume in the three volume collection entitled Children and the Law. Volume two, Children andThe Criminal Justice System, will focus on the constitutional rights of children who appear before a juvenile court. This volume will cover issues of legal council, the state taking criminal custody of a child, a reasonable doubt, public trials and jury trials of children, protection against double jeopardy, the rights of children not to face those they accuse (particularly in the case of sexual offences). Finally, this volume will address when minors may be tried as adults and when they may be executed.