Liberation theology gave children’s rights theological legitimacy in Catholic Latin America

Evidence

Liberation theology’s preferential option for the poor, applied to children, produced a children’s-rights framework grounded in Latin American rather than Western-liberal categories. The framework gave the children’s-rights movement theological legitimacy within the region’s overwhelmingly Catholic population. — , The Rod and the Child, 5055

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: how religious framing rather than secular human-rights framing drives policy adoption in majority-Catholic societies.
• XREF: Parallels other accounts of liberation theology’s political force (e.g., Gustavo Gutiérrez) and the preferent option applied to new constituencies. — connects to: Childism extends child-liberation ethics into mainstream philosophy — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3398