One of the most controversial ideas in America is that children should have rights

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There is perhaps no better way to froth up a right-wing mob than to suggest that both women and children are their own beings, imbued with individual rights separate from the desires of those who have traditionally had dominion over them (parents, men).

This isn’t to say that children and women have identical sets of rights, or that children are “oppres…