Our Youth Should Be Allowed Civil Rights

My debater makes a clear example of the reason I believe a child should be given rights, to protect them from backwards thinking individuals like this. To think a child is automatically your property or your object is horribly inhumane and objectifies the child; they aren't even human in your eyes. But children and teens ARE human and they deserve the humans rights that any adult in this country is allowed, because clearly, our youth need them. The choice is not the parents to make. Children are exposed to the real world everyday and they begin to form their own mindsets based around it. You can't control your kids or make the choices for your kids life because they literally begin to think and do for themselves by the time they're ten, hell even six. I believe it's not up to a parent to force their children to be a certain way or raise them to be clones of their parents, I believe the parents role should be that of a guide, someone who helps guide the child through the life that was given to them, that the child him or herself leads, while protecting and loving them along the way. Birth does not make you a slave to someone else, the very thought is horrifying. But onto something else. This idea would simply be enforced by creating those civil rights. That's all that would need to occur. And so what if it causes a major shift? Most major and needed changes do. Because people are reluctant to treat their children like people, it'll cause tension. And yes, if a child's rights are intruded upon, they would have the right to get help from authority. If they are being treated like property, they would have the right to ask for help and the parents would have to change, if anything; or the children could be moved and get the healthy parents they need, folks who actually care for the child's well-being and not their own. That's reasonable and what would and should occur. Yes, it does weed out bad parents. It would also weed out abuse and dysfunctional families. Terrible situations that children are going through everyday that no one takes heed to or cares to take heed to. Giving children civil rights could be the best thing we could ever do to ensure that the youth of America our protected by harmful individuals in their lives. It would also cause more people to be reluctant about willy-nilly having child for their own benefit, merely using kids as a means to get paid, or having kids as a means to force them and mold them. It would really encourage people to think about what they truly intend to do for their child as parents and stop them from thinking so selfishly about children in the first place. Giving children civil rights would revolutionary for everyone involved and change the way we think about parenting and children themselves. As a conclusion, there is no "agenda" here. That's the equivalent of calling the civil rights movement, which would allow black people(one of which I am; a woman as well) civil rights, an agenda, as if it contains evil intent. This is merely the same concept, only giving our youth civil rights and acknowledging them as the humans that they are as well, there is nothing evil about that, at all. And I say, it's about time we did this. Because apparently, we assume our kids are objects, not human, to begin with. That's what people thought of black slaves, that's what some people think of the queers you mentioned, gay people, anyone else who rightly lives their life they way they please to. Why would we hold our kids to the same equivalent? The world is not your little bubble, my debating friend, people do not have to succumb to your opinions about their sexually, just as kids should not have to succumb to what their parents want from them, that's not the parents role and should have never been. Let's give our kids civil rights, seriously.