The diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder is a subject of controversy, for a host of reasons. This paper seeks to explore the manner in which children's interests may be subsumed to those of parents, teachers, and society as a whole in the course of diagnosis, treatment, and...

In politics, temporal measurements are nearly ubiquitous. Youths must wait 18 years for the right to vote, prison sentences punish people in quantities of time, and immigrants who seek to naturalize must undergo a probationary period before becoming citizens. In these and other examples, time...