HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Martha Minow, Childhood And Society

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Naomi Couto

Document Summary

Christmas is not about the original celebration of christ"s birth, it"s only about giving more expensive gifts and buying showing off. Santa clause is a creation of media to sell stuff to people. Christmas is not about celebration, love, togetherness, but instead about affording big gifts for people when you go to their house for dinner. Love is associated with things and our children are raised by valuing gifts more than love, or considering gifts as a token of love. Lee says that postman was right till a point but not now because lee thinks that childhood is disappearing whereas adulthood is disappearing. Law and morality questions around rights and children. Is there a better theoretical framework to use in talking about the relationship between children, parents, and the state: against the language of rights. Belief that the experiences of childhood affect the kind of adult which the child turns out to be .