“Children are one third of our population and our future together.” - Choose body for the promotion of children’s health - 1981

A variant is the common theme “Children are our most precious resource.” It is usually easy asserts that, without justification or explanation. You’ve probably heard so many times that it barely more than a cliché. It seems equally true that it takes for granted that right, but children are, in fact, “our most precious resource?” More information on the matter, they are a resource?

There is certainly a lot of resources, both natural and manufactured. Many of them is necessary, and some are very appreciated. This leads certainly ask the resource is very important. The rub is that children do not participate at the head of the list of major resources. Perhaps cleaner air and water are worthy of consideration places in the top five, or if, but not children.

Me demand that the process of argument, that children of the classification as a resource? A resource is something, used or consumed by someone else. Even if the priority of the community or society, is something of a resource available to or used by individuals or groups within the Community or society. In this perspective, those are the resources? — At a minimum, it is a strange concept has been rejected, that time of civil war and should not return for children.

A person may have skills or knowledge that is available. A person can not predict that other services. A person can not create products that consume and other values. People are individually and collectively within the resources as suppliers and consumers, either directly or indirectly, but not himself resources. It follows that, in collaboration with the most important resource, children are no longer as a resource. Children are not resources. These are people to the same extent and in exactly the same way you are. To discuss, if losing in importance, depersonalize, depreciation and children.

Start with another statement. Children are also humans. They are producers and consumers of resources, not resources. It is good for you, children have minimum requirements of resources and a number of discretionary resources interests. See that the resource centre, understanding, that key elements of the resource vary from person to person.

Everyone, including children, also has rights and privileges linked to their membership of certain groups and communities. These rights and privileges are established on the basis of these groups and communities. Age is certainly one of the criteria. An adult can probably not a local primary school, although education system within the adult services discretion resource interests. A sixteen years, probably not agree in local elections, even if he or she can better prepare to vote, which are allowed to vote. However, age is just one of many criteria used for the rights and privileges for individuals.

A grain resource and preserve the rights and privileges of membership are in relation to each group or in the community. This is no less true for children as for adults. Just as nuclear power is the resource is not the same for all members of the Commonwealth, rights and privileges are not equitably distributed. Some groups have rights and privileges, which are configured differently than those in conjunction with other groups. For example, there is a group that is authorized to vote, a group is allowed to drive, a group that is permitted in public schools, and so forth. At the same time, all members of the community have the right to be free of abuse and violence, sexual exploitation, food insecurity and a long list of other rights of membership of the Commonwealth.

It requires another question. Are there any key resource requirements, rights and privileges, especially for children as a significant part of members of the community? The answer to this question is “Yes”. The children have needs of key resources, mostly the same as for all other members of the Commonwealth. This is also valid for elderly, disabled and other identifiable groups within the community, children also have specific needs of key resources in regard to children. The fact that they are not themselves different from other panels, key requirements of resource.

In addition to special requirements of central resource, children have rights and privileges that are not identical to all others in the community. For most of their rights and privileges are the same as for other recognized. In some ways, but they have certain rights and privileges as adults are not granted and other rights and privileges that adults can do. This could define the childhood of their children basic skills and resources requirements models of rights and privileges, distinguishes between children and adults. Call this definition of “specific advantages member” associated with children as members of the Commonwealth.

If children are a resource, every effort should focus on the protection and management of this resource for the well-being of the community. If children are also people, full members of the community, everyone must focus, to ensure that every child, the job of resource requirements are met and every child is special and regular rights and privileges are respected. For example, abuse and neglect are not only factors increase the risk and potential danger of an important resource and everyone’s responsibility is not easy to minimize that risk. Much more, abuse and neglect are violations of child rights and privileges and mission is clear for the violation to secure and ensure that the child has full and continuous access to all Members of the community benefits specific and regular, on which he or she is eligible. Among other things, this perspective means that the violation is it now not to stop gradually, but immediately.

The challenge for the community, for the violation immediately, without compromise or with other central resource requirements, rights and privileges of the child. Everyone’s mission is to ensure that doing so properly, with good people in the right way, without harming the child inadvertently or non-compliance with its key resource requirements, rights and privileges in the process. The challenge is, indeed, perhaps intimidating, but not less compulsory for children as for you