TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coupet,Sacha M.
AU  - Marrus,Ellen
TI  - Children, sexuality, and the law
T2  - Families, law, and society
SN  - 9780814724217
AV  - KF479 .C465 2016
U1  - 345.7302530835 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Children
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - United States
KW  - Children and sex
KW  - Children's rights
KW  - Sexual rights
KW  - Child sex offenders
KW  - Sexual minority youth
KW  - Juvenile justice, Administration of
KW  - Law
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Legal skills: advocacy
KW  - thema
KW  - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
KW  - Criminal law: procedure & offences
KW  - Family law: children
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - American political and legal culture is uncomfortable with children's sexuality. While aware that sexual expression is a necessary part of human development, law rarely contemplates the complex ways in which it interacts with children and sexuality. Just as the law circumscribes children to a narrow range of roles - either as entirely sexless beings or victims or objects of harmful adult sexual conduct - so too does society tend to discount the notion of children as agents in the domain of sex and sexuality. This book reflects on some of the unique challenges that accompany children in the broader context of sex, exploring from diverse perspectives the ways in which children emerge in sexually related dimensions of law and contemporary life. It explores a broad range of issues, from the psychology of children as sexual beings to the legal treatment of adolescent consent
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814723852.001.0001
ER  -