Childhood in Liberal Theory Equality, Difference, and Children's Rights

• Main Author: Brando, Nicolás
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Liverpool University Press 2024; British Academy
• Edition: 1
• Series: British Academy Monographs
• Subjects: "Ethics; adolescents; Age groups and generations; Child, developmental and lifespan psychology; children; Constitutional and administrative law: general; developmental psychology; Ethics and moral philosophy; Family law; Family law: children; human rights; inequality; JBSP1 Age groups: children; JBSP2 Age groups: adolescents; jurisprudence; Jurisprudence and general issues; Law; Law and society, sociology of law; Law: Human rights and civil liberties; Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law; Methods, theory and philosophy of law; morality; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; philosophy of law; political; Psychology; social; Social and ethical issues; Social and political philosophy; social discrimination; Social discrimination and social justice; Social groups, communities and identities; society; Society & Culture; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Topics in philosophy
• ISBN: 9780197267769; 0197267769; 9780198932246; 0198932243; 0198932235; 9780198932239
• DOI: 10.3828/9780197267769

Children are systematically treated differently as political and legal subjects due to their assumed weaknesses, incapacities, and particular needs. How does this differential status fit in with the principles of justice that structure our society, law, and morality? Despite the growth of philosophical research on childhood and children's rights during the last decades, there has been no systematic study on the moral and political status of children in liberal political theory. Childhood in Liberal Theory fills this gap, and offers a novel look at the concept of 'childhood' and children's rights within the tradition of liberal theories of justice. Brando proposes an ambitious deconstruction of the concept of 'childhood', and an Adaptive model of children's rights as the most apt way of including children within liberal discourses on justice.