The Philosophical, Legal, and Ethical Bases of Children's Rights

We are concerned with all children, and though some of us do feel a commitment to all vulnerable persons, many others think children are the responsibility of parents, maybe private communities as well, but not of society as a whole, not of the government. We and our governments and the treasury we fund, they might say, oh, no direct duties to other people's children. And if we do owe any duties with respect to child rearing, they are owed to parents, maybe to communities. And the core duty is to leave them alone. The Government feels that we let them do whatever they want with children, forbear from trying to guide them in their men or treating children and don't give them our money to raise their children. So that way of thinking is sufficiently widespread that child welfare policy and debate often become dominated by talk of parental rights.
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