"1. Children's decision-making competency: Misunderstanding Piaget." by Thomas D. Lyon

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1. Children's decision-making competency: Misunderstanding Piaget.

Violence Update (1993)

Thomas D. Lyon, University of Southern California

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Abstract

Children's decision making ability is important in a number of areas in the law. A child's competence to decide affects how her actions and opinions are evaluated in family court proceedings, dependency actions, delinquency cases, and civil suits.

Keywords

piaget,
children's decision-making,
children's competency,
child abuse,
child witness,
child neglect

Disciplines

Criminal Law,
Evidence,
Law and Psychology,
Child Psychology and
Developmental Psychology

Publication Date

August, 1993

Citation Information

Lyon, T. D. (1993). Children's decision-making competency: Misunderstanding Piaget. Violence Update, 4, 6, 9.