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Convention on the Rights of the Child

An international treaty that defines a child as every human being below the age of eighteen years and requires parties to prohibit production, distribution, and possession of material depicting children in sexual contexts.

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How do international treaties and model laws influence domestic age thresholds for pornography and child protection?

International treaties and widely circulated model laws exert strong normative pressure toward an 18‑year threshold for defining “” in pornography and child‑protection rules, but they do not mechanica...