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Excerpt of Table of Contents Permissions; Acknowledgements; Forward; Prologue; Chapter 1: Re-understanding the Right to Identity as a Right to Belonging I. Introduction; II. The rationale for re-understanding the right to Identity; III. International law; IV. Identity in two cases; V. Conclusion; Chapter 2: Responsiveness to Children and Law’s Healing Power I.Introduction; II. Responsiveness to children's suffering, Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the path blazed by Emmanuel Levinas; III. Is there a cure to the universal phenomenon of denying children's suffering?; IV. How can protecting children actualize democracy's unique potential?; V. What should be the principal aim of state action on behalf of the suffering child?; VI. How can we respond to the child's suffering through The Best Interests Principle?; VII. More on responding to the child's experience in a multicultural society; VIII. Conclusion; Chapter 3: Children’s Identity, Constructing Memory through Law and Its Responsiveness to Children I. Introduction; II. Alienation, children's experience and doctrinal thinking; III. Self-constructing identity and remembering as dynamic processes; IV. Authoring Memory through law and the Challenge of Psychological Mindedness; V. Struggling over Memory; VI. Protecting the Family Lives of Children from Disadvantaged Homes; VII. Conclusion; Chapter 4: The Child’s Right to be Oneself I. Introduction; II. Neglect of the need 'to be' and a preoccupation with material progress; III. Protecting the child‘s need to be a spiritually authentic being; IV. Postmodernism and the need to be one‘s self within a committed family that offers the child values; Chapter 5 The Courage to Hope and Protecting Children’s Sense of Belonging: The Case of Child Protection I. Introduction; II. On skepticism and reality; III. On social responsibility and the public response to children at risk and their families ; IV. Conclusion. Index