Make the child's best interests a primary consideration
Give primary weight to children's safety, development, dignity, and long-term welfare in decisions affecting them.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
Provide age-appropriate guidance
Support children's growing autonomy in a manner consistent with their evolving capacities.
Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions
A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
- Religious systems
- 0/52
- Nonreligious systems
- 3/41
- Represented systems
- 3/93
- Specific anchors*
- 1/3
0.0%
7.3%
3.2%
33.3%
*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.
Corpus definition
Support children's growing autonomy in a manner consistent with their evolving capacities.
This is the atlas’s definition, not a substitute for a tradition’s own interpretation. Scope, exceptions and translations require review of each source.
Preserved calculation difference
The original index differs from recomputed unique-system or specific-anchor counts. Both are retained; the source file is unchanged.
All Systems: source 94 · recomputed 93
Evidence, mapping by mapping
3 selected mappings
Children's Rights Ethics (CRC) · Specific primary/official anchor
Provide age-appropriate guidance · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
CRC Article 5
Open original source ↗ www.unicef.org
Specific primary/official anchor · International ethics
Framework-level mappings identify a strong analogue; verify exact text, article, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10602. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
UN Indigenous Peoples Rights Ethics · Official framework-level anchor
Provide age-appropriate guidance · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Open original source ↗ www.un.org
Official framework-level anchor · International and Indigenous rights ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify the exact principle or article, affected community, legal status, and interpretive scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10603. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
WMA Declaration of Geneva · Official framework-level anchor
Provide age-appropriate guidance · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
World Medical Association Physician's Pledge
Open original source ↗ www.wma.net
Official framework-level anchor · Professional medical ethics
Framework-level mapping: verify exact wording, institutional status, historical context, and scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10604. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
History and geography: source limits
This edition does not supply a historical genealogy or coordinates for this teaching. Transmission, invention, population and geographic presence are not inferred from a mapping.
Explore connections in the same category
Shared systems in the corpus, not evidence of historical influence.
Protect children from economic exploitation
Do not use children in work that harms health, education, dignity, or development.
Listen to children in matters affecting them
Give children an age-appropriate opportunity to express views and take those views seriously.
Unmodified source statistics
| Primary Rank - Religious | 597 |
|---|---|
| Overall Rank | 537 |
| Nonreligious Rank | 344 |
| Religious Frequency Tier | 40 |
| Religions Sharing | 0 |
| Religious Systems | 52 |
| Religious % | 0 |
| Nonreligious Groups Sharing | 3 |
| Nonreligious Groups | 41 |
| Nonreligious % | 7.3 |
| All Systems Sharing | 3 |
| All Systems | 94 |
| Overall % | 3.2 |
| Direct Official Anchors | 1 |
| Direct Evidence % | 33.3 |
| Cross-Sphere Balance Index | 0 |
| Religious Adoption Gap | -7.3 |
Specialized or emerging teaching