Three Rights
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Nick Axford
Abstract
This chapter sketches out some of the key points of agreement and debate concerning rights. It examines different approaches to measuring rights, but first it looks at what rights are and why they are important, how they become violated, what they cover (their substance), and what makes something a right (or how one obtains a right). Rights are the interests and liberties to which humans are entitled. Violated rights are therefore identified by establishing, first, the freedoms and resources to which an individual is entitled and, second, how that individual has been treated by the third party (person or body/organisation) with the corresponding duty to forbear or assist.
Abstract
This chapter sketches out some of the key points of agreement and debate concerning rights. It examines different approaches to measuring rights, but first it looks at what rights are and why they are important, how they become violated, what they cover (their substance), and what makes something a right (or how one obtains a right). Rights are the interests and liberties to which humans are entitled. Violated rights are therefore identified by establishing, first, the freedoms and resources to which an individual is entitled and, second, how that individual has been treated by the third party (person or body/organisation) with the corresponding duty to forbear or assist.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables iv
- Acknowledgements vi
- Introduction 1
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Defining child well-being
- Need 15
- Rights 29
- Poverty 45
- Quality of life 59
- Social exclusion 73
- Relationships between the concepts 89
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Measuring child well-being
- Child well-being through different lenses 113
- Relationships between the conditions 131
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Implications for children’s services
- Matching conditions and service styles 141
- Developing congruent children’s services 159
- Conclusions 171
- Method 185
- Logistic regression 209
- The 60 variables 213
- Additional results 219
- References 227
- Index 259
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables iv
- Acknowledgements vi
- Introduction 1
-
Defining child well-being
- Need 15
- Rights 29
- Poverty 45
- Quality of life 59
- Social exclusion 73
- Relationships between the concepts 89
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Measuring child well-being
- Child well-being through different lenses 113
- Relationships between the conditions 131
-
Implications for children’s services
- Matching conditions and service styles 141
- Developing congruent children’s services 159
- Conclusions 171
- Method 185
- Logistic regression 209
- The 60 variables 213
- Additional results 219
- References 227
- Index 259
