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This chapter discusses the child rights perspective with reference to:
1. The pre-rights policy perspectives for children with reference to the laissez-faire and patriarchy perspective, state paternalism and child protection perspective and defence of the birth family and parents’ rights perspective;
2. The history, salient features and critique of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the concepts of child rights;
3. The categories of child rights to family care, development, participation and protection; and
4. The principles of primary consideration to dignity and the best interests of the child, indivisibility and interdependence of child rights and holistic approach, universality, equality, non-discrimination and inclusion of the marginalised among children and state and societal accountability for child rights.
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Desai, M. (2010). The Child Rights Perspective. In: A Rights-Based Preventative Approach for Psychosocial Well-Being in Childhood. Children¿s Well-Being: Indicators and Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9066-9_2
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