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+Law | January 24, 2012

Why Is the U.S. Against Children’s Rights?

By Lawrence J. Cohen and Anthony T. DeBenedet, M.D.

America refuses to adopt U.N. guidelines that it helped draft more than 20 years ago. Are we still in the dark ages?

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