Children: Rights and Childhood

Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children’s rights. David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to a topic that has assumed increasing relevance since the book’s first publication. Divided clearly into three parts, it covers key topics such as:

• John Locke’s writings on children
• Philippe Ariès’s Centuries of Childhood
• children’s moral and legal rights
• a child’s right to vote and to sexual choic...