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So far we have examined what is special about children1 and the arguments why they do not hold rights and have further unpacked the distinction between the concepts of capacity and competence. In this chapter, I pull these arguments together to outline why children have rights and the potential limits to those rights.
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Parts of this chapter were originally published in Contemporary Political Theory; see Cowden, M. (2012) “Capacity, Claims and Children’s Rights,” Contemporary Political Theory, 11(4), 362–380.
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Cowden, M. (2016). Why Children Have Rights. In: Children’s Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137492296_5
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