Children's Rigts

I was rather confused by this article, but I really liked the connection (or rather distinction) between dependence of children and the dependence of oppressed social groups by their oppressors. Children need physical care and adequate socialization in order to survive and in order to be able to function. Without these, they will literally die. They cannot live without this support provided by others. The oppressed social groups have a different kind of dependence. Their dependence was artificially introduced, and is not “real”. But, the dependence of children on their caretakers is mandatory. Also, the parents work to end the dependency. They want their control over them to stop.

I did not clearly see the distinction made from the rights theory to that of Kantianism. I guess it would help if I knew exactly what the rights theory is, too.

I need help understanding the differences between the rights and obligations. And I was confused about the perfect and imperfect obligations. Aren’t the imperfect obligations good? If they are then they should rename them because that is just confusing.

And what was the article saying about Children’s rights? I think that this is more of a moral topic. We should all treat others with respect. This connects also to the “willing it to be a universal law”.

If anyone has any clarification of what we just read, please post and help me out. Thanks!