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Law Reform and Children’s Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Extract

I wasn’t born a Commissioner for Equal Opportunity. I spent my formative years as a child, and my re-educative years as a lawyer, a teacher of law, and a law reformer.

As a child I swore that I would never be as insensitive to children’s needs and desires as adults were being to mine. As I became an adult I realised the seductive truth that it is much more reasonable, and pleasurable it was, to assert my assessment of children’s best interests over their own.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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