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633 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2011)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0633 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION Children: From Rights to Citizenship By FELTON EARLS This article introduces the themes of children's rights and citizenship and surveys the authors' contributions to this volume of The Annals. The volume marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly's adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). As the most widely ratified of all human rights covenants, adoption of the CRC repre- sents a landmark achievement in the history of child- hood. Yet there remains a noticeable gap in its implementation. The United States has not ratified the CRC. The contributions to this volume take the CRC as a starting point along the path of achieving functional citizenship for children. Issues of child protection, political maturity, deliberative democracy, and intergen- erational nondomination are covered. Several examples of empirical research on children's participation in social and political matters are provided. Recommendations are made to advance the case of child citizenship over the near term. This includes the need to urge the United States to ratify the CRC. Keywords: Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC); ratification; intergenerational citizenship On November 9, 2009, a group of scholars assembled at the House of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to refine and pos- sibly to expand their notions of children as citizens. The meeting, staged as a workshop to prepare for this volume of The Annals, pro- vided a moment to consider the connection Felton Earls is a professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School and a professor of human behavior and development at Harvard School of Public Health. His interests span child mental health, epidemiology, and human rights. From 1990 to 2005, he was the principal investigator for the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a multilevel, longitudinal study on the causes and consequences of children's exposure to violence. His current project, the Ecology of HIV/AIDS and Child Mental Health in Tanzania, is a community-level randomized control trial aimed at strengthening children's capacity to promote commu- nity ealthl in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. DOI: 10.1177/0002716210383637 ANNALS, AAPSS, 633, January 2011 6

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