SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paternalism, Social Rejection, Canadian Human Rights Act
28 May 2016
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Adultcentrism is the tendency of adults to view children and their problems from a biased, adult perspective" (goode, 1986) An adultcentric bias is evident when we measure children by adult standards, when we fail to suspend our assumptions about them, when we decline to see the world from their point of view. Refer back to our lecture week when we discussed how children/childhood have been socially constructed throughout history and the impact this has had on how children are considered and treated. Paternalism and protection children (and youth) are regarded as vulnerable and as in need of protection: adults are tasked with making decisions for children and youth for their own good" and to protect their. Ideas of innocence and dependence: exposure to events or information may contaminate their innocence and it may be put their healthy development at risk.
