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Article: Not good enough parenting: what's wrong with the child's right to an "open future".(Report)
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- Social Theory and Practice
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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The majority opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Wisconsin v. Yoder (406 U.S. 205 [1972]) provoked philosophical commentary that is remarkable for its passion and conviction. There are, occasionally, even hints of outrage, which the subject of other people's children will for some reason elicit. As is well known, the Court found that Old Order Amish parents who had declined, in violation of Wisconsin law, to send their children to school beyond the eighth grade were exempted from compliance under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. In response, Kenneth Henley wrote:
It might be claimed that some traditional ways of life--for instance, that of ...