 If children can have at least some rights, what rights should they have? One important reason for asking, and for giving a satisfactory answer to, this question is a concern that the child’s moral status should be adequately secured and protected. Some, like Onora O’Neill, believe that this is assured by discharging our obligations as adults to children. One can consistent believe both that there are things we ought not to do to children and that children do not have rights. Yet as human beings ought children to have the basic rights that humans have? 