Children: Rights and Childhood

1. John Locke's children Part 1: Childhood 2. The concept of childhood 3. The modern conception of childhood Part 2: Children's rights 4. Children's moral rights 5. Liberation or caretaking? 6. Arbitrariness and incompetence 7. The wrongs of child

David Archard is Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He is author of Sexual Consent, The Family: A Liberal Defence, and co-editor of The Moral and Political Status of Children, and of Procreation and Parenthood: The Ethics of Bearin