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e. Parental responsibility[ 1] refers to the responsibility which underpin the relationship between the children and the children's parents and those adults who are granted parental responsibility by either signing a 'parental responsibility agreement' with the mother or getting a 'parental responsibility order' from a court. The terminology ...
Voluntary childlessness. Voluntary childlessness or childfreeness[1][2] describes the active choice not to have children. Use of the word "childfree" was first recorded in 1901 [3] and entered common usage among feminists during the 1970s. [4] The suffix - free refers to the freedom and personal choice of those to pick this lifestyle.
Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. [1] The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority ...
Parentification or parent–child role reversal is the process of role reversal whereby a child or adolescent is obliged to support the family system in ways that are developmentally inappropriate and overly burdensome. [1][2] For example, it is developmentally appropriate for even a very young child to help adults prepare a meal for the family ...
Opinion - Adult responsibilities are making kids too old, too soon. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says parents are too stressed out these days. The combination of work and childrearing may simply ...
Parenting. v. t. e. Child protection (also called child welfare) is the safeguarding of children from violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect. [1][2][3][4] It involves identifying signs of potential harm. This includes responding to allegations or suspicions of abuse, providing support and services to protect children, and holding those who ...
Free-range parenting. Children riding a horse to school, Glass House Mountains. Free-range parenting is the concept of raising children in the spirit of encouraging them to function independently and with limited parental supervision, in accordance with their age of development and with a reasonable acceptance of realistic personal risks.
t. e. The age of criminal responsibility is the age below which a child is deemed incapable of having committed a criminal offence. In legal terms, it is referred to as a defence/defense of infancy, which is a form of defense known as an excuse so that defendants falling within the definition of an "infant" are excluded from criminal liability ...