TY - BOOK ID - 77876579 TI - Freedom's orphans PY - 2007 SN - 1282086758 9786612086755 1400828074 9781400828074 9781282086753 9780691122984 0691122989 9780691134703 0691134707 6612086750 PB - Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Liberalism KW - Child welfare KW - Liberal egalitarianism KW - Liberty KW - Political science KW - Social sciences KW - 342.721 <73> KW - 342.721 <73> Persoonlijke vrijheid. Privacy. Wetgeving i.v.m. transplantatie van organen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - Persoonlijke vrijheid. Privacy. Wetgeving i.v.m. transplantatie van organen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77876579 AB - Has contemporary liberalism's devotion to individual liberty come at the expense of our society's obligations to children? Divorce is now easy to obtain, and access to everything from violent movies to sexually explicit material is zealously protected as freedom of speech. But what of the effects on the young, with their special needs and vulnerabilities? Freedom's Orphans seeks a way out of this predicament. Poised to ignite fierce debate within and beyond academia, it documents the increasing indifference of liberal theorists and jurists to what were long deemed core elements of children's welfare. Evaluating large changes in liberal political theory and jurisprudence, particularly American liberalism after the Second World War, David Tubbs argues that the expansion of rights for adults has come at a high and generally unnoticed cost. In championing new "lifestyle" freedoms, liberal theorists and jurists have ignored, forgotten, or discounted the competing interests of children. To substantiate his arguments, Tubbs reviews important currents of liberal thought, including the ideas of Isaiah Berlin, Ronald Dworkin, and Susan Moller Okin. He also analyzes three key developments in American civil liberties: the emergence of the "right to privacy" in sexual and reproductive matters; the abandonment of the traditional standard for obscenity prosecutions; and the gradual acceptance of the doctrine of "strict separation" between religion and public life. ER -