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your grounds of critique are precisely that children do not have positive legal rights and that parents do, so focus on that.
rights discourse is always a rhetorical attempt at a power grab
i should be clear that i don’t actually have that much of a problem with the article itself; it is playing the rhetorical game within the boundaries of the legal system, trying to make an argument to protect a genuinely oppressed group. i just think we’d all be better off without appealing to rights