Grounding children’s rights in present humanity makes them full rather than conditional.

Evidence

If children’s rights are grounded in their future adult status, then the rights are conditional and developmental — they increase as the child approaches adulthood. The young child has fewer rights than the older child; the older child has fewer than the adult. But if children’s rights are grounded in their present humanity, then they apply fully — not identically to adult rights, since the child’s circumstances differ from the adult’s, but equally in the sense that the dignity owed to a child is the same dignity owed to any human being. — , The Rod and the Child, 8849

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Children’s rights rest on present humanity rather than future adult status. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8848; Any rights theory excluding children also excludes sleeping adults and impaired persons — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7732

Related

• Children’s rights rest on present humanity rather than future adult status. (similarity 0.91)
• Any rights theory excluding children also excludes sleeping adults and impaired persons (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Any rights theory excluding children also excludes sleeping adults and impaired persons #expands (0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 7732