1 Introduction 1 -- <I. Children and rights> -- 2 Do Children Have Rights? 19 -- 3 What Rights (if any) do Children Have? 31 -- 4 Children's Choices or Children's Interests: Which do their Rights Protect? 53 -- 5 Becoming versus Being: A Critical Analysis of the Child in Liberal Theory 70 -- <II. Autonomy and education> --6 Special Agents: Children's Autonomy and Parental Authority 97 -- 7 Autonomy, Child-Rearing, and Good Lives 118 -- 8 Children, Multiculturalism, and Education 142 -- 9 Answering Susan: Liberalism, Civic Education, and the Status of Younger Persons 160 -- <III. Childrens, families, and justice> -- 10 Silver Spoons and Golden Genes: Talent Differentials and Distributive Justice 183 -- 11 Equality and the Duties of Procreators 195 -- 12 Liberal Equality and the Affective Family 212 -- 13 What Children Really Need: Towards a Critical Theory of Family Structure 231 -- 14 Family, Choice, and Distributive Justice 253 -- Further Reading 273 -- References 276 -- Index 289