O'Neill's Ethics

O'Neill agrees with Kant insofar as she believes that we ought to avoid contradicting ourselves from a moral and metaphysical sense. Where she differs however, is over the issue of children's rights. Children who are abused, mentally, physically, or sexually, are more apt to develop psychological problems in their older years that will impair them from making the kind of rational decisions they need in order to be morally justified. So we don't have the right to disobey this duty; we must do it. Unlike the Kantian outlook, these things must be upheld for the future of the human race. This being said, I found it rather hard to pin down what O'Neill was saying, but I think that I nailed down the general idea.