{"id":274,"date":"2011-09-28T17:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/akdn\/?page_id=274"},"modified":"2024-08-12T22:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T22:00:43","slug":"ec-1-2-childrens-rights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/akdn\/ec-1-2-childrens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"EC 1.2 Children’s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What are children’s rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ideas of childhood and social values vary considerably. While all societies recognize the difference between infancy, childhood, and adulthood, views vary about what childhood represents and what children are able to do and not do and how they should be treated.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\nConsider… A five-year-old cares for her sister alone<\/b>
\n\nBefore she heads off to work in a distant field, Kosala Devi feeds her two girls, washes their hands and faces, and prepares to leave. She locks the house behind her and leaves with her sickle and hoe…Read more<\/a> <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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What do you think about this scenario?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lalitha and Saritha are growing up in an environment where it is not unusual for children to take responsibility for their younger siblings. Do you think these children\u2019s rights are being violated? Why or why not?<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

What children experience each day matters. The day-to-day moments of life are deeply felt. Feeling left out from a particular group of friends can be a strong, unpleasant experience. Even if minor experiences or worse don\u2019t matter much in the long run of learning and development, they can make a very unhappy day for a small child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A focus on a child\u2019s rights to be happy and engaged is a focus on early childhood education in the immediate here and now rather than on what they will become in the future. Children\u2019s early learning and development become by-products of t<\/span>he environments that children and early childhood educators create together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was unanimously adopted by the United Nations in 1989. More countries adopted the CRC faster than any other human rights treaty. All United Nations member states, except for South Sudan and the United States, ratified the CRC. It put children’s rights on the political agendas of many countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CRC outlines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n