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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Timothy P Jackson |
| ISBN: | 9780802865397 0802865399 |
| OCLC Number: | 667990378 |
| Description: | xxv, 386 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Social-psychological perspectives. When "good enough" isn't really good enough : aiming for the "best" for all young people / Peter L. Benson and Eugene C. Roehlkepartain. Does best love of the child mean parents should facilitate a love of the sacred? / Annette Mahoney and Ken I. Pargament. Parent-child reminiscing : creating best love through sharing stories / Robyn Fivush -- Historical perspectives. Raising a loving child in late medieval and early modern Europe (1400-1700) / Steven Ozment. The duties of love : the vocation of the child in the household manual tradition / John Witte Jr. and Heather M. Johnson. The right to life and its application to the welfare of children in the canon law and the magisterium of the Catholic Church : 1878 to the present / Charles J. Reid Jr. -- Philosophical and theological perspectives. Collective responsibility for children in an age of orphans / Cynthia Willett. Original sin and Christian parenting : a constructive proposal / Richard R. Osmer. "Best practices" for nurturing the best love of and by children : a Protestant theological perspective on the vocations of children and parents / Marcia J. Bunge -- Legal perspectives. What's love got to do with it? (Part I) : loving children in cases of divorce or death in the Jewish tradition / Michael J. Broyde. What's love got to do with it? (Part II) : the best interests of the child in international and comparative law / Rana Lehr-Lehnardt and T. Jeremy Gunn. Can law shape the development of unconditional love in children? / Margaret F. Brinig and Steven L. Nock. The best love of the child? : an integrational view / Don S. Browning |
| Series Title: | Emory University studies in law and religion (Unnumbered) |
| Responsibility: | edited by Timothy P. Jackson. |
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Is there a right to love? This provocative volume maintains that the first right of children everywhere is to be loved and to be encouraged to love in return. Without disparaging the fruits of the children?'s rights movement of the twentieth century, it argues that a steady focus on loving familial relationships, in the context of supportive communities of worship, is the best way to protect those rights. This is not a sentimental assertion; these distinguished authors bring rigorous insights from the social sciences, history, philosophy, theology, and law to bear in making their case. <br> M. Cathleen Kaveny<br>University of Notre Dame<br><br> This volume draws judiciously and expertly from a variety of disciplines to provide a kaleidoscopic tour of what truly is the best love of the child. <br> John Witte Jr. (from foreword) Read more...