Answer to Question #232525 in English for Christelle

Question

Essay on children's rights and responsibilities in South Africa with references.

Answer 1

 Children's Rights and Responsibilities in South Africa 

Children's rights in South Africa are the stated laws that have been made and enacted to govern children's interests. In this case, the rights are written in the form of bills, which are entailed in the sections and the subsections of South Africa's constitution (Himonga, 2016). Therefore the discussion mainly embarks on children's rights and the responsibilities of South Africa.

The children rights and responsibilities in South Africa mandates stated in section 28 of South Africa's Bill of Rights in the constitution entails that every child has a right to essential nutrition, shelter, health and social services (Himonga, 2016). Constitutionally, the laws also emphasise the children's right to access to the assurance of the protection from maltreatment, neglect, abuse, and cases of degradation.

Conclusively, children in South Africa are entitled to rights and responsibilities apart from the fundamental rights like; due to having a name and a nationality from birth, the right to be protected from neglect and abuse and the right to have access to the family care and the respective care when out of their family (Himonga, 2016). Therefore, respect for the rights and responsibilities of the children must be adhered to.

Reference

 Himonga, C. (2016). African customary law and children's rights: intersections and domains in a new era. In Children's rights in Africa (pp. 83-100). Routledge. (Himonga, 2016)