TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dwyer,James G.
TI  - Religious Schools v. Children's Rights
SN  - 9781501723834
AV  - KF4124 .D98 1998
U1  - 344.73/0796 21
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Church schools
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - Parent and child (Law)
KW  - Religious education
KW  - Education & History Of Education
KW  - Legal History & Studies
KW  - Religious Studies
KW  - EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / School Safety
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to the Cornell Paperbacks Edition --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Catholic and Fundamentalist Schooling Today --; 2. The Constitutional Backdrop --; 3. Why Parents' Rights Are Wrong --; 4. Against a Community Right to Educate --; 5. A Right to Equal Treatment --; 6. Justice for Children --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Despair over the reported inadequacies of public education leads many people to consider religious schools as an alternative. James G. Dwyer demonstrates, however, that religious schooling is almost completely unregulated and that common pedagogical practices in fundamentalist Christian and Catholic schools may be damaging to children. He presents evidence of excessive restriction of children's basic liberties, stifling of intellectual development, the instilling of dogmatic and intolerant attitudes, as well as the infliction of psychological and emotional harms, including excessive guilt and repression and, especially among girls, diminished self-esteem. Courts, legal and political theorists, and the public typically argue that families and religious communities are entitled to raise their children as they see fit and that the state must remain neutral on religious matters. Dwyer proposes an alternative framework for state policy regarding religious schooling and other child-rearing practices, urging that the focus always be on what is best, from a secular perspective, for the affected children. He argues that the children who attend religious schools have a right to adequate state regulation and oversight of their education. States are obligated to ensure that such schools do not engage in harmful practices and that they provide their students with the training necessary for pursuit of a broad range of careers and for full citizenship in a pluralistic, democratic society
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723834
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501723834
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501723834/original
ER  -