ABSTRACT
This chapter describes that since children are gradually transformed into adults, there must be a continually changing relation between the two kinds of rights, and need for a varying compromise. Preservation of the race implies both self-sustentation and sustentation of offspring. Still regarding preservation of the species as the ultimate end, we must infer that while in large measure children's rightful claims are to the products of activities, rather than to the spheres in which those activities are carried on, children have, at the same time, rightful claims to such parts of those spheres of activity as they can advantageously use. Though, up to recent generations, parental interdicts on the marriages of children, even when of age, were to a large extent voluntarily recognized, they were not legally enforced.
