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84 Cornell L. Rev. 895 (1998-1999)
Confronting Developmental Barriers to the Empowerment of Child Clients

handle is hein.journals/clqv84 and id is 930 raw text is: CONFRONTING DEVELOPMENTAL BARRIERS TO THE EMPOWERMENT OF CHILD CLIENTS Emily Busst Im ODUC ON ................................................. 896 I. BACKGROUND ........................................... 899 II. DEF I ING EwrowEFmNr ................................ 907 A. Empowering Adult Clients .......................... 908 1. Transforming Clients' Role in Litigation ............ 909 2. Transforming Clients' Self-Presentation ............. 910 B. Empowering Child Clients .......................... 913 1. Power Shifts Unexperienced by the Child ............ 914 2. Power Shifts Experienced by the Child ............... 916 III. TmE DEVELOPMiENTAL LIiRATURE ....................... 918 A. An Initial Caveat .................................... 918 B. The Capacity for Empowerment .................... 920 1. Children's Developing Understanding of Self and Other ........................................... 921 2. Children's Understanding of Self and Other in the Legal Process ..................................... 924 a. The Capacity To Experience Influence over the Litigation .................................... 926 i. The Problem of Distortion ................. 926 ii. The Problem of Misattribution ............. 934 b. The Capacity To Experience Influence over Perceptions of Self ............................ 936 3. From Understanding to Execution .................. 942 a. The Capacity To Act .......................... 942 b. Valuing Control .............................. 944 c. Confining Empowerment ...................... 945 4. The Limits of Lawyering .......................... 948 IV. IMPLICATIONS ........................................... 950 A. Implications for the Representation of Children .... 950 t Assistant Professor of Law, The University of Chicago. My thanks to William Buss, Elizabeth Garrett, Theresa Glennon, Jack Goldsmith, Dan Kahan, Bret Koplow, Susan Mangold, Tracey Meares, Wallace Mlyniec, Martha Nussbaum, Eric Posner, Robert Schwartz, Elizabeth Scott, David Strauss, Cass Sunstein, Michael Wald, Barbara Wood- house, and the participants at The University of Chicago Law School's faculty workshop for their helpful comments on an earlier draft, and to Laura Clinton, Yael Karabelnik, and Christopher Snell for their excellent research assistance. The Arnold and Frieda Shure Research Fund and the Max Rheinstein Research Fund in Family Law provided support for this research.

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