Children's Rights Movement, The: Overcoming the Oppression of Young People

A good case can be made that it is young people who are the most oppressed of all minorities. They are discriminated against on the basis of age in everything from movie admissions to sex. They are traditionally the subjects of ridicule, humiliation and mental torture by adults. Their civil rights are routinely violated in homes, schools, and other institutions. They often cannot own money or property. They lack the right to trial by jury before being sentenced to jail.

With The Children's Rights Movement, leading advocates of school reform, Beatrice and Ronald Gross, have not abandoned the cause of improving our educational system; they have extended the struggle to society at large, to rectifying the plight of so many young people today.

-(Summary excerpted from the back cover of the text)