Description

The purpose of this article is to discuss the needs and priorities for ethical considerations in research on children. The focus will be on methodological issues in research on a target group that is often described as vulnerable, i.e. children, and especially children with different kinds of disabilities. The focus will also be on ethical considerations in research in relation to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN, 1989) and how these demands are met in reality. There are still many things to be done in order to fulfil the agreements in the CRC, and one question is why member states have not been able to make more powerful changes for children of the world. Children are the future and the time has come when we have to count on children and allow them to have influence in the decision-making that will affect their lives, as most political decisions influence a child’s future.