Forsberg, Lisa ; Black, Isra & Skelton, Anthony (eds.): Consenting Children: Autonomy, Responsibility, Well-Being

Children are treated differently compared to adults in many domains, including in health care, education, employment, and criminal justice. The differential treatment of children—to adults, and in the case of younger children and adolescents, to each other—makes it both practically and theoretically important to examine the justification of when and why this treatment is permissible. Because the justifications of children’s differential treatment typically appeal to foundational normative consid