SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Paternalism, Young Offenders Act, Juvenile Delinquency
19 Jan 2016
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Semester 2, lecture 2, social work - jan 18, 2016. Adultcentrism: the tendency of adults to view children and their problems from a biased, adult perspective. Decline to see the world from their point of view. "children"s rights movement" has given children more agency. Paternalism and protection - children are regarded as vulnerable and in need of protection; adults are tasked with making decisions for the well-being of children and youth, "for their own good" Ideas of innocence and dependence - exposure to events or information may contaminate their innocence, and it may be putting their healthy development of risk. Lack of autonomy - withholding information on the grounds that children are incapable of top immature to understand; excluding children from important decisions about their own lives. Youth are seen as deviant and need to be controlled - children are measured against "normal measure of childhood and where they don"t fit" United nations conventions on the rights of the child.
