Child poverty rates exceed those of elderly people in many Western nations. Moreover, it can be expected that the presently young generation (and yet unborn) will (far) less benefit from the welfare state than the elderly generation does and will continue to do. It has been argued that inequalities between age groups and intergenerational inequities are, to a large extent, the result of the increasing numerical weight of elderly voters among the electorate to which political parties and governments respond. Thus, in order to attain a less age-biased welfare state some change of the institutions of democratic politics could be appropriate. Giving voting rights to minor children, albeit vicariously exercised by parents, is one, repeatedly pro...