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in the absence of the child; they will see no need to provide the means whereby the child can be ensured of fair fact-finding. If the Act a leading piece of legislation in North America in the attention it pays to research data in the field of child welfare and to legal safeguards for the protection of civil rights of the children and their parents88 then one would hope that our universities are producing better researchers, and legal draftsmen more skilled in ensuring the protection of a child's civil rights. And one would hope that somewhere in their training these researchers and draftsmen would discover that The concept of protection of children can be as much a threat to civil liberties as is the current tendency to impose excessively long . . . sentences ... in the hope of reforming the criminal.89

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