List of children's rights topics

:"This is an incomplete list of articles that are relevant to children's rights, which can or may never satisfy any objective standard for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome."

A

* 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. [Verhellen, E. (1994). Convention on the rights of the child: Background, motivation, strategies, main themes. Leuven/Apeldoorn: Garant.]
* 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. [Fletcher, A. (2006) " [http://www.commonaction.org/WYVH.pdf Washington Youth Voice Handbook.] " Olympia, WA: CommonAction.]
* ADHD - A persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity, as well as forgetfulness, poor impulse control or impulsivity, and distractibility. [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of [American Psychiatric Association, 2000.] [ [http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/adhd.n Psychiatric Association|the American Psychiatric Association] ] , Fourth Edition, htm Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).] Behavenet.com. Retrieved on December 11, 2006.]
* 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.

B

* Breastfeeding
* Bullying

C

* Capital punishment
* Child abandonment
* Child identity rights
* Child refugees
* Child advocacy
* Child camel jockeys
* Child laundering
* Child labour
* Child pornography
* Child prostitution
* Children's rights in Islam
* Committee on the Rights of the Child
* Convention on the Rights of the Child
* Corporal punishment
* Cultural rights
* Child soldiers

D

* Decision making

E

* Education
* Evolving capacities

F

* Family rights
* Fathers' rights movement
* Fear of childbirth
* Fear of children
* Fetal rights
* Freedom of expression
* Freedom of speech
* Freedom of thought

G

* Genital integrity
* Genital mutilation

H

* Health care
* Healthy diet
* Homelessness

I

* Incarceration
* Infanticide

J

* Juvenile court

M

* Maternity rights
* Military use of children

P

* Parental alienation
* Parents' rights movement
* Paternity fraud
* Paternity rights
* Paternity testing
* Play
* Pregnant patients' rights

R

* Relationship rights
* Reproductive rights
* Right to work

* Shaken baby syndrome
* Smoking
* Standard of living
* Student rights

T

* Teen courts
* Teenage pregnancy
* Trafficking of children

U

* United States

Y

* Youth participation
* Youth rights
* Youth suicide
* Youth suffrage
* Youth voice
* Wage labour

ee 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

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