Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2025
Abstract
A brief roadmap of this article may be helpful. Part I describes the emergence of the Child Wellbeing framework and its powerful role in shaping twenty-first-century youth justice reforms captured by the Restatement. Part II shows how this framework has begun to have a far broader influence on the law affecting children and how the framework and the developmental approach embodied in the Restatement can guide courts and shape the trajectory of the law in the future. Part III explores potential challenges to the Restatement’s effectiveness in attaining a fully integrated system based on the Child Wellbeing framework.
Disciplines
Family Law | Juvenile Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Elizabeth S. Scott,
Restating the Law of Children and Youth: The Evolution of Reform,
58
Fam. L. Q.
105
(2025).
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https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4688
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