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Scene 1: Sarah is the 12-year-old daughter of the author of this book. Because she sometimes shares her father’s home workspace, she is not unacquainted with the topic of children’s rights. When one day her father tries to motivate her to use the Internet-portal on children’s rights newly established by a youth association, she answers: ‘Why should I? I am not a child anymore.’ Should her father remind her that, according to Article 1 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (hereafter CRC), she can remain a child for six more years und claim specific rights? Or would she interpret this advice as presumptuousness of an uncomprehending adult?
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© 2012 Manfred Liebel
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Liebel, M. (2012). Framing the Issue: Rethinking Children’s Rights. In: Children’s Rights from Below. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230361843_2
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