Vem är ett barn? En kritisk idéanalys av Barnkonventionen

Nearly half of the worlds population is individuals under the age of eighteen. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child state in its first article that a child is ?every human being below the age of 18 years?. Our aim and purpose with this essay is to problemize this broad definition. Our hypothesis is that the definition brought by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is too wide and therefore brings difficulties when children of different ages beneath eighteen should and shall be treated the same. The problem framed in a question were: Which problems are there with the conception child and in what way does the conception fundamentally show? The method being used is a critical idea analysis where the aim is to show the underlying notion of the conception of child in the convention. The reached results showed that our hypothesis was right, essenitially that the definition is too broad which leads to straits and difficulties concerning childrens rights. This is shown especially reagarding protection of the child versus childrens right to autonomy