Sexual Abuse and the Rights of Children Reforming Canadian Law Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Children's rights and adolescent sexuality	3
	A practitioner orientation	3
	Children's rights	9
	Historical influences	20
	The emergence of child sexual abuse	31
2	Consensual sex and adolescence: Legal orientation and judicial discourse	39
	An age of sexual consent?	40
	The Badgley, Fraser, and C-15 reforms	44
	Judicial conversations	59
3	The evolution of Bill C-15: The language of the helping professions	78
	Boundary definition	78
	Criminalizing and medicalizing teen sexuality	83
	Counter-currents on consent	101
4	Families, the helping state, and the adolescent	108
	The child and the professional	108
	Families and the state	118
	Families and the market	126
5	Towards a counter-discourse on adolescent sexual status	134
	Children's rights as a problematic concept	136
1	Judicial reform	143
2	Legislative reform	150
3	Establishing a counter-discourse	153
	Conclusion	157
	Appendixes
	A The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959)	163
	B Pre-Bill C-15 provisions pertaining to sexual consent/assault involving children	166
	C The Terms of Reference for Badgley	168
	D The Terms of Reference for Fraser	172
	E Bill C-15: An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canada Evidence Act	175
	F Gaylin's Variable Competence Scheme	185
	References	197
	Index	211