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Telegdi-Csetri Á., Constantinescu S., Ducu V., Roth M. (2021) Adult-Child Co-agency - For or Against Children’s Rights. In: Baikady R., Sajid S., Przeperski J., Nadesan V., Rezaul I., Gao J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68127-2_25-1

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In 2004, Romania has translated the provisions of the CRC into a law forbidding all forms of violence against children with further legislation upcoming the following years. We examine two cases of school child abuse by teachers, where law didn’t support – indeed didn’t allow – representing children’s interests, let alone their choice, in the context where parents fought on their side. In this, we rely on a factual representation of events as well as media analysis to decipher the perceptions that motivate the events beyond mere systemic inertia; furthermore, we use excerpts from interviews with experts on the social or legislative side of the events. Our aim is to identify the chances and traps of coagentic attitudes that may create law to support children’s rights or may succumb into vigilantism or factional warfare that adulates abuse. Through our analysis, we deduce two sets of issues: the interests and participation of children may be impeded by the very democratic processes used to express the agency of citizens; and action in support of children’s perceived interest may serve as a cover for mere adultism.

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