Child vs. State

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.