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Children: From Rights to Citizenship

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  • Felton Earls

    (Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health)

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This article introduces the themes of children’s rights and citizenship and surveys the authors’ contributions to this volume of The Annals . The volume marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). As the most widely ratified of all human rights covenants, adoption of the CRC represents a landmark achievement in the history of childhood. Yet there remains a noticeable gap in its implementation. The United States has not ratified the CRC. The contributions to this volume take the CRC as a starting point along the path of achieving functional citizenship for children. Issues of child protection, political maturity, deliberative democracy, and intergenerational nondomination are covered. Several examples of empirical research on children’s participation in social and political matters are provided. Recommendations are made to advance the case of child citizenship over the near term. This includes the need to urge the United States to ratify the CRC.

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  • Felton Earls, 2011. "Children: From Rights to Citizenship," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 633(1), pages 6-16, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:633:y:2011:i:1:p:6-16
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716210383637
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