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Introduction
The human and legal rights of children and youth are just as important as the human and legal rights of adults, perhaps even more important because of the vulnerability resulting from their age. However, it's really important that adults remember that the human and legal rights of children exist for the benefit of children. I have too often seen parents running the "rights" of their children up the flagpole in their family law dispute, trying to use their children's rights to benefit their own position in court or before an arbitrator. This happens most frequently where parents are engaged in an extraordinary degree of conflict with each other, often but not always in cases where the alienation or estrangement of a child from a parent is a recurring theme in the legal dispute between the parents.
It is important to recognize and honour children's human and legal rights. It's also important to make sure that parents don't use them children's rights only as a pawn way of getting what they want in their legal dispute.
In this section, we'll talk about the human and legal rights of children and youth, and how those rights relate tofamily law disputes between their parents.
==The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child==