minors

Provides information to help the reader understand laws, recognize responsibilities, and appreciate rights especially in relation to parents, school, job, and personal matters.

This comprehensive legal guide for teens covers everything from school dress codes to sexual harrassment to signing contracts.

Examines legal cases about privacy, visitation and divorce, search and seizure, dress code, drug testing, free speech in school newspapers and yearbooks, sexual harassment at work, transfer to adult court, and the death penalty.

Examines the rights of young people, particularly students, in the United States, how they have been established and protected, and how they differ from those of adults.

An exploration of the legal rights of teenagers at home, school, and work, with discussion of the juvenile court system, and a look at issues relating to the financial responsibility of teens.

Contains thirteen essays that provide varying perspectives on the issue of age of consent, discussing if raising the age would protect youth, related laws, sending sexually suggestive text messages, and other topics.

Presents seventeen essays that debate the issues of alcohol abuse in America, and covers topics such as the seriousness of teen alcohol abuse, raising alcohol taxes as a prevention, parental influences and intervention, minimum drinking age, and more.

Discusses the case involving fifteen-year-old Gerald Gault and its impact on children's rights and due process of law for juveniles.