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This chapter explores the legal and social responses to childhood. It explores the contradictory messages that are sent by the law about children. It also considers the importance attached to the concept of “Gillick competence”. The chapter highlights how childhood is seen in distinction from adulthood and the debates around the “goods of childhood”. The concepts of children’s rights and the best interest of the child are explored.
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