The epilogue recollects the several exploratory strands opened up by the book and their relevance to the present, as witness our reliance on the epistemic contract on age to imagine the human and gender justice, for one, or our recourse to the naturalized child to launch and obfuscate various political claims, for another. It summarizes the conclusions drawn in each of the six chapters by weaving them into a discussion of two present-day cases – one from India in 2012 and another from the United States in 2017. The cases speak to the continuing power of the “child” to animate political passions, and the (misplaced) reliance on forensic technologies and bureaucratic procedures to provide accurate proofs of age, and hence of childhood.