CHILDREN, PARENTS AND THE LAW: Public and Private Authority in the Home, Schools, and Juvenile Courts offers the perfect balance of perspective and coverage for your child-focused law course. This highly teachable book is also ideal for child-focused courses that deal with the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. This text retains the features that earned it success in its First Edition. It offers: problem exercises throughout, varying in complexity from short & simple to longer & more involved an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates information from related social sciences, such as psychology and sociology a balanced perspective and coverage of issues, with no perceptible bias (liberal or conservative) in tone or selection of topics ample coverage of juvenile courts, making it an ideal choice for Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Court courses as well as courses that center on parents¿ and children¿s rights and obligations a concise, manageable length at fewer than 900 pages logical organization and clear structure, catering to a wide variety of teaching styles a comprehensive Teachers Manual, available in print and online The Second Edition has been carefully updated with great new material on: control over and funding of education, including school vouchers and Zelman v. Simmons-Harris minors" First Amendment rights and reproductive decision making juvenile delinquency, including Roper v. Simmons on the death penalty, the MacArthur Juvenile Adjudicative Competence Study, and their implications for juvenile delinquency law and practice additional Supreme Court cases focusing on school searches (Board of Ed v. Earls) and the new cases on the interrogation of minors child welfare, including: 1. additional coverage of domestic violence, including Nicholson v. Williams and its aftermath 2. new cases on emergency removals 3. cases considering the constitutionality of the AFSA termination of parental rights grounds; and commentary and materials on the impact of the AFSA changes 4. greater focus on teens aging out of foster care child abuse investigations, including the Supreme Court"s opinion in Crawford v. Washington