This chapter discusses recent shifts and contradictions in the Swedish child protection and welfare system in the context of the fight against gang crime which is an increasing problem in Sweden today. The overall question in this chapter is quite simply – what is happening with children’s rights in Sweden in the 2020s? – and the overall aim is to discuss what the legal shift and changes in Sweden can tell us about challenges when it comes to realizing and respecting children’s rights in other contexts and jurisdictions more than 30 years after the entry into force CRC. The focus is on how law reforms in Sweden in the 2020’s may lead to that children’s right being overlooked and risk of discrimination against groups of children affected by and suspected to be involved in gang crime, but also how such discrimination by extension can be seen as non-legitimate differential treatment of (all) children because they are children, i.e., age discrimination. It is discussed how children, in the context of the fight against gang criminality are, on the one hand subjected to what can be labelled ‘adultification’ and ‘over-responsibilization’, making children responsible in the same way as adults, but on the other hand, children are perceived as ‘different’ and therefor in need of more control than adults– being ‘treated like a child’. The hope is that this chapter can broaden the understanding of discrimination against children, both that between different groups of children, and non-legitimate differential treatment of children as a group, i.e. discrimination on the basis of childhood.