From the Book - Third edition.
2. The concept of childhood
Article I (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child : CRC)
3. The modern conception of childhood
The developmental model : childhood as a "stage"
"Childhood" and "adulthood"
The religious and literary ideal : childhood as "innocence"
pt. II. Children's rights
4. Children's moral rights
The will theory and the interest theory
The scope and weight of moral rights
Liberation or caretaking?
6. Arbitrariness and incompetence
7. The wrongs of children's rights
Rights are all-or-nothing
The impoverished world of rights
Rights talk is not the way to speak of children
8. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
The importance of the Convention
9. Children under the law
Vicarious parental liability
10. Children's rights to vote and sexual choice
pt. III. Children, parents, family and state
Parental duties and parental rights
13. Parental rights to privacy and autonomy
Individualism versus collectivism
15. The problem of child abuse
16. Conclusion : a modest collectivist proposal.