@article{915692,
      recid = {915692},
      author = {Herring, Jonathan,},
      title = {Vulnerability, Childhood and the Law /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This book will challenge the orthodox view that children  cannot have the same rights as adults because they are  particularly vulnerable. It will argue that we should treat  adults and children in the same way as the child  liberationists claim. However, the basis of that claim is  not that children are more competent than we traditionally  given them credit for, but rather that adults are far less  competent than we give them credit for. It is commonly  assumed that children are more vulnerable. That is why we  need to have a special legal regime for children. Children  cannot have all the same rights as adults and need especial  protect from harms. While in the 1970s "child  liberationists" mounted a sustained challenge to this  image, arguing that childhood was a form of slavery and  that the assumption that children lacked capacity was  unsustainable. This movement has significantly fallen out  of favour, particularly given increasing awareness of child  abuse and the multiple ways that children can be harmed at  the hands of adults. This book will explore the concept of  vulnerability, the way it used to undermine the interests  of children and our assumptions that adults are not  vulnerable in the same way that children are. It will argue  that a law based around mutual vulnerability can provide an  approach which avoids the need to distinguish adults and  children.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/915692},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78686-5},
}