Are Children Second-Class Humans? | Aaron Stupple

About this episode

Peter Boghossian discusses with Aaron Stupple the concept of children's sovereignty and its implications on parenting.

I engage Physician and author Aaron Stupple on whether children deserve full sovereignty, and why the answer exposes a contradiction in how we raise our kids. More From Aaron Articles: The Techno Optimist's Guide to Futureproofing Your Child Books: The Sovereign Child Follow Peter Boghossian.

People in this episode

Host: Peter Boghossian

Guest: Aaron Stupple

Topics covered

• children's rights
• parenting
• sovereignty
• child development
• philosophy

Keywords

• children
• sovereignty
• parenting
• philosophy
• development

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Techno Optimist's Guide to Futureproofing Your Child, The Sovereign Child

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