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Chapter 1. Introduction, and What We Owe the Child.- Part 1: Prior approaches to state intervention.- Chapter 2. The Primrose Path: Rights and Autonomy.- Chapter 3. What Is Relevant: Interests, Needs, and Harms.- Chapter 4. What We Owe Parents and Family.- Chapter 5. What Society May Claim: Public Health.- Part 2: The State Intervention Test (SIT) and its Theoretical Basis.- Chapter 6. Political Considerations in a Liberal Pluralist State.- Chapter 7. The State Intervention Test: When to Interfere with Parental Decisions.- Part 3: Applications of the State Intervention Test.- Chapter 8. Treatment of Disease.- Chapter 9. Prevention and Screening.- Chapter 10. Enhancement of Function.- Chapter 11. The Maturing Minor.- Chapter 12. Sexual And Reproductive Issues I: Education; Reproductive Choices.- Chapter 13. Sexual And Reproductive Issues II: Departures From Binary Sexual and Gender Viewpoints.- Chapter 14. Genital Rituals: Circumcision.- Chapter 15. Genital Rituals: Female Genital Alteration.- Chapter 16. Conclusion.