SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Substance Abuse, First Nations, Premiership Of Stephen Harper

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 1A06
• Professor: Jennifer Crowson

Document Summary

Adults viewing children from a biased perspective. Not helpful cannot see experience from child"s perspective. Viewing children and holding them to adults standards. Children were seen as vulnerable, but now have their own agency: because of children"s rights movement. Adults make decisions for children and youth to protect them. Examples: they don"t understand what is going on, their problems are small and not important. Consequences: children are seem as vulnerable and in need of protection, lack of autonomy (excluding children from important decisions, innocence contaminated (puts their development at risk) Uncrc (the united nations convention on the rights of the child) About respecting children and highlighting their individual agency. Best interest of the child should be the primary consideration. Child who is capable of forming views should be able to express the views. Opportunity to be heard in judicial and administrative proceedings.