Other than love, what does a child deserve in childhood?

Children deserve to grow up in a society which affords them a degree of independent mobility through alternative transportation options. Children deserve to have their dependence on adults viewed as a vulnerability to be respected and cared for, not as a tool for coercion and subserviance; their choices should be respected insofar as they don't contradict with their own best interests and the needs of the greater social unit. Children deserve the opportunity to explore the world for themselves, and the knowledge of the dangers they face from the ravages of nature and from predatory megalomaniacs.