Kids' Bill of Rights

A child has the right to have a parent(s) or guardian(s) who care(s) about him/her.

A child has the right to live without physical or verbal abuse, including criticism and yelling.

A child has the right to eat three meals a day, wear clean, warm clothing, and have a roof over his head.

A child has the right to privacy as soon as he/she requests it.

A child has the right to an education (with or without a home, birth certificate, or immunizations) where he/she will be treated as equal to his peers and respected by adults.

A child has the right to an education without verbal or physical abuse from adults or peers.

A child has the right to ask questions so she/he can learn about the world.

A child has the right to be disciplined without violence.

A child has the right to be included in a group no matter what his race, religion, or handicap.

A child has the right to live in a safe environment.

A child has the right to live without being sexually molested, sexually harassed, or used in any way.

What are you opinions?

Yes of course

Haha, what if your not a kid?

I find this thread funny...

I mean the whole idea of childhood seems to be in crisis after all. And seeing as childhood is an individual social construction. It differs in each society and in each creed.

I believe sociologist Marie Phillippe once stated that giving rights to children when they don't have the emotional maturity, has lead to suicide, eating disorders, psychological problems...Etc.

In less developed countries, you see the similarities between the children of today's third world nation and pre-industrialised westren society. Where children where and are treated as an economic asset rather than a symbol of love.

**Children in my opinion should be given less rights, and the social policy should change...In my opinion, as social workers tend to focus more on children than the entirety of the family**

WWW.YOUTHFORHUMANRIGHTS.COM That's all I have to say.

Never going to happen. No one will ever escape being treated unfairly. And the day that all peers treat all students with respect is the day that Communists and Fascists deside to be buddy buddy (excluding that one time in 1939 of course).

This is the way it should be but its no. so many children are abused by their parents physicley and verbally. And even some teachers are verbally abusing the children. AND according to the law children don't have rights!!!! I found that out when I went to theropey and said my parents dont give me any of my legal rights and they told me "they don't have to, or a child and the law sais only ADULTS have theese rights and untill your 18 and are on your own you just have to deel with it. The only thing they HAVE to give you is food and shelter." !!!

URGGHH it pisses me off truely if your parents practice one religion and you think "well i dont wholey agree with that" and you find your own and your parents say "no you WILL NOT practice that in MY home" then you cant do anything about it!!!!!

So truely children have no rights and the ONLY ONES in power are of course....the ADULTS(age18+)However if you are being physicley abused then someone will do something about it but they dont realy care if your emotionally abused. (LIKE ITS THEIR JOB!) ITS CRAZY!

Yeah, this kids bill of rights list takes way too many things for granted. Bob already pointed out the entire meal thing, and also, not even all adults in America get three warm meals a day, wear clean, warm clothing, and have a roof over their heads. Your idea of a bill of rights for just children is so flawed it isn't funny. The idea of a bill of rights is that it covers everybody at any age that live in a certain place. I mean, half of your rights in your list actually go against the United States of America's constitution and Bill of rights, so hell no I don't agree. Number 9, number 1, number 2, number 8, number 4 (where in the hell did you get number 4 from anyway. Hahahah. Nobody has the right to privacy, why would a child have it).), and number 5 all go against the U.S.'s First ten ammendments. Half of your list goes against my Countries wonderful first amendment, which I happen o whole heartedly agree with. As for discipline without violence, I believe sometimes need a spanking to keep them in line. I don't deem it violent, but necessary in certain situations. Your number ten is so entirely ridiculous I can't even laugh at it. The right to live in a safe environment. Why don't we just wrap the kid in a bubble and stick em in a bunker with food, water, and oxygen enough to live out his childhood. There is no such thing as a safe environment. We live in a world of crazy, which we try so hard to make safer, but never really can. Some of you points are valid, like the last one, which is why most countries have laws against it. But most of your things with abuse in them, you need to define abuse, cause criticism is not abuse, it is a very necessary part of society. Most of your things are shoulds, not rights. Like a child should be able to ask questions to learn, but is it a right, well, not everywhere, and no one really ever has to answer, so the learning factor may never show up. Too many holes in this for me to get behind. My country has a bill of rights that I'm satisfied with as far as I have studied.

His bill of rights isn't necessarily flawed, 50% of it should be pointing out the obvious. A safe home, no abuse, 3 meals a day, etc. Unfortunately parents DO abuse their children, sometimes don't give them any food, along with other abusive factors. But sometimes this bill of rights won't work because the adults themselves ALSO live in poverty without proper food, homing and shelter. If you can provide for your child, there is no reason not to. If you can't, then you can't. The child doesn't have rights you can't respond to because you don't have the rights either. But that's homeless people.

Discipline without violence, fine. Discipline without spanking, no. Your child will just grow up to be another spoilt, boozing, underage sex, smoking chav who doesn't have any responsibilities and will have a huge shock when he goes to the real world and finds out the world actually doesn't revolve around him. Discipline without any form of consequence and weak ass petty moaning doesn't do anything. They'll probably become head of the house more than you are.

1. A child has the right to have a parent(s) or guardian(s) who care(s) about him/her.

You can't always guarantee that, it's not so much as a right, as more to be expected of. Why not give the child up otherwise? You can't force it if you don't have knowledge it's not being listened to, and a child or a toddler can't enforce these rules. It's not as simple as just reminding the parents, hey, look at my Kiddies Bill Of Rights, yo. Treat me right now. It doesn't work that way.

2. A child has the right to live without physical or verbal abuse, including criticism and yelling.

LOL, criticism and yelling? That's just plain weak. If you can't criticize your child if it does something wrong, has bad behaviour and doesn't listen to you, that rules out and demeans any discipline in the first place.

3. A child has the right to eat three meals a day, wear clean, warm clothing, and have a roof over his head.

Again, it doesn't always have the RIGHT. It's expected of, but read above and you'll see why it doesn't always happen.

4. A child has the right to privacy as soon as he/she requests it.

Requests it? Another spoilt brat, then. Nobody deserves a lock on their door just 'beacuse'. They can't just ask for privacy whenever they want it. Parenting is no privacy. So they can listen to the rules their parents enforce. Giving them privacy is pretty much saying once you've asked for it, you don't have to listen to me anymore. Privacy could mean them smoking in their room having sex and drinking alcohol without their parents knowing, or maybe they do know and aren't allowed to object. Ridiculous, not exactly moral, necessary or humane 'right'.

5. A child has the right to an education (with or without a home, birth certificate, or immunizations) where he/she will be treated as equal to his peers and respected by adults.

Why should the child be respected when sometimes it doesn't respect you? Why is a child so deserving of an education when usually it can interrupt, break rules and do whatever the hell it likes? It needs an education, doesn't necessarily deserve it.

6. A child has the right to an education without verbal or physical abuse from adults or peers.

Obvious. Doesn't always get to be that obvious, because parents can be sadist and abuse their child, but it should be human nature.

7. A child has the right to ask questions so she/he can learn about the world.

Yeah, it can ask questions. But sometimes you answer and it goes "Why?" you answer again it goes "Why?". This is just the communication in parenting, sometimes children can be annoying and interfere with your work. It deserves an answered question I guess, but not one that's obvious, when you're busy, and this doesn't really deserve to be a 'right'.

8. A child has the right to be disciplined without violence.

You know my thoughts on that. Violence, no, spanking, yes. It needs, even DESERVES, consequences. "Talking" and "enforcing" with just words really won't do your child any justice in the long run. Maybe it's 'hard' to hit your child, but it will do it a favour.

9. A child has the right to be included in a group no matter what his race, religion, or handicap.

Yeah, unless he's too mentally or physically disabled to be involved, then yeah. That's obvious. And as long as he doesn't try and force his religious views onto other children, I believe that you should be treated equally by race/religion, but not if you're here and believe you have more rights than the people who truly belong in the Country.

10. A child has the right to live in a safe environment.

And what if you can't move out of the dangerous place because you're too poor? What if the entire country can be dangerous and threatening?

11. A child has the right to live without being sexually molested, sexually harassed, or used in any way.

Yeah, obvious.

A child needs it's discipline or it becomes a lazy, spoilt slob. It needs commuication and rules, that are listened to, and if you break the rules; proper, actual consequences.