Children’s rights are situated within the culture of modernity, in which the emphasis is on the universal and upon objective knowledge (Hartas, 2008). The ethical foundation is that individuals are atomistic units and require an authority to establish objective rules to govern their lives. When children’s rights are seen, as the dominant tendency is to do, as a universal code, most obviously as in the CRC, it has attracted criticism for relying on a deterministic understanding of who the child is (Gould, 2004). Determinism has played a formative role in the constructions of childhood.