Is it ‘very strange’ to think of children as having rights? Is a child’s ‘main remedy’ to grow up? These are the views of two leading philosophers, Harry Brighouse (2002) and Onora O’Neill (1988), and doubtless many others. This is not as I see it, as I intend to show in this book. My focus will be on the importance of recognising children’s rights, not just for children, but for society as a whole. I first explain why it has taken so long to recognise that children have rights.