Children's Constitutional Rights in the Nordic Countries

The book presents a comparative study of children's constitutional rights in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The authors discuss the value of enshrining children's rights in national Constitutions in addition to implementing the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). Central issues are whether enshrining children's rights in a constitution improves implementation and enforcement of those rights by providing advocacy tools and by mandating courts, legislators, policy-makers and practitioners to take children's rights seriously. The study assesses whether the constitutions are in line with the child rights approach of the CRC both on a general level and in detail in three domains; the best interests of the child, participation rights, and the right to respect for family life.