title: Companion piece: Needs, rights, and the human family: a bio-psycho-social-spiritual perspective.
abstract: This article sets forth a bio-psycho-social-spiritual perspective on the needs and rights of children. Consideration is first given to the philosophical nature of need. The nature of rights is then examined in relation to need as a basis for social justice claims. Various need paradigms, such as human development needs, socially constructed needs, and needs hierarchies, are considered and compared to the rights paradigm presented in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Rationale for ratification is then presented.
authors.affiliation: USA.
authors.lastname: Sister Ann Patrick Conrad
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002651:Child Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D012935:Social Justice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D029181:Spirituality; D014480:United Nations; D014481:United States