1. Quoted in B. Gross and R. Gross (eds), The Children's Rights Movement, Anchor Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1977, pp. 338-9.

2. Hillary Rodham, 'Children under the law'. Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, November 1973, p. 487f.

3. William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 1, 12th ed., A. Strahen & W. Wordfall for T. Caddell, 1700-1795, quoted in Rodham, op. cit., p. 489.

4. Rodham, op. cit., p. 490.

5. Ibid., p. 491.

6. Described in John Howells, Remember Maria, Butterworth London, 1974; also fuller résumé of the case in my own review of Howells' book in the Leicester Chronicle, 3 May, 1974.

7. Bernard Crick, In Defense of Politics, Penguin Books, Harmonsworth, 1962, p. 48, quoted by Rodham, op. cit.

8. Richard Farson, Birthrights; A Bill of Rights for Children, Macmillan, New York, 1974, p. 20.

9. Lloyd de Mause, 'The evolution of childhood', Journal of Psychohistory. No. 1, 1974, pp. 503-75.

10. Farson, op. cit., pp. 20-1.

11. Ibid., p. 54.

12. John Rothchild and Susan Wolf, Children of the Counterculture, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1976.

13. In Gross and Gross, op. cit.

14. L. L. Constantine, 'Open family: a lifestyle for kids and other people', The Family Coordinator, Vol. 26, 1977, pp. 113-30, quoting from analysis in a paper by P. Slater.

15. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1972.

16. Victor L. Worsfold, 'Children's rights: a philosophical justification', Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, February 1974, pp. 142-57.

17. Farson, op. cit., p. 148.

18. Ibid., p. 147.

19. Ibid., pp. 140-1

20. Ibid., pp. 132-3.

21. Ibid., p. 136.

22. Constantine, op. cit.