Sociology, Vol. 46, No. 5, Special Issue: The Sociology of Human Rights (OCTOBER 2012), pp. 906-920 (15 pages) There are few attempts to link human rights discourses and child poverty debates, though ...

Some 11.9 million children in America lived in poverty last year. That comes out to be about one in every six children. Children have no choice or ability to change the income or living situation of ...