Children have the right to be fed, clothed, and protected until they reach adulthood.
Children must have the respect, to enjoy love and affection from their parents.
Children have the right to be treated equally, vis-a-vis their siblings in terms of financial gifts.

Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal said that preferential treatment of a child is permitted if he or she is handicapped while others are not. (In Al-Mughni, vol. 5, p. 605, it is stated that special treatment of a child is permissible due to a need, a handicap, blindness, his or her being from a large family, being engaged in studies, or something of the sort, as it is also permitted to withhold from a child who would spend what he is given on sinful or wicked things.)

The child has the right to be not forced by its step parents or its birth parents.