Index of children's rights articles

Articles related to children's rights include:

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Abandonment - The practice of abandoning offspring outside of legal adoption. Causes include many social and cultural factors as well as mental illness.
Adultcentrism - The exaggerated egocentrism of adults.^[1]
Adultism - A predisposition towards adults, which some see as biased against children, youth, and all young people who aren't addressed or viewed as adults.^[2]
ADHD - A persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity, as well as forgetfulness, poor impulse control or impulsivity, and distractibility.^[3]^[4]
Age of consent - The minimum age at which a person is considered to be capable of legally giving informed consent to any contract or behaviour regulated by law with another person.
Age of criminal responsibility - The age after which the defense of infancy is no longer an excuse.
Age of majority - The threshold of adulthood as it is conceptualized in law.
Anorexia nervosa - A psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight.

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Child soldiers

Circumcision

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Decision making

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Juvenile court

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United States

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See also

Children's rights movement
- Timeline of children's rights in the United States
- Timeline of children's rights in the United Kingdom
Children's rights law
- Child labor laws in the United States

References

^ Verhellen, E. (1994). Convention on the rights of the child: Background, motivation, strategies, main themes. Leuven/Apeldoorn: Garant.
^ Fletcher, A. (2006) Washington Youth Voice Handbook. Olympia, WA: CommonAction.
^ Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of [American Psychiatric Association, 2000.
^ Psychiatric Association|the American Psychiatric Association, Fourth Edition, htm Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).] Behavenet.com. Retrieved on December 11, 2006.