Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This chapter critically assesses the resources that John Rawls’s influential conception of justice—“justice as fairness”—has for addressing the distinct justice-based entitlements of children. Five principal issues are addressed. First, the author considers Rawls’s discussion of the family and the manner in which principles of justice apply to the family. Second, the author examines some methodological issues about the representation of children in justificatory apparatus of justice as fairness. Third, the author considers how Rawls’s theory handles a cluster of substantive issues concerning the authority that adults, and parents specifically, have in shaping or influencing children. Fourth, the author explores how matters concerning the distribution of resources and opportunities bear upon the justice-based entitlements of children. Finally, the author identifies some of the institutional arrangements that fidelity to Rawls’s principles may require in order to meet children’s justice-based entitlements.</jats:p>