HOW CHILDREN RIGHTS CHANGED THROUGH THE HISTORY

Theme : HOW CHILDREN RIGHTS CHANGED THROUGH THE HISTORY

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From ancient times children were separate part from peoples comunity.

They had exlusive rights and duties , which changed during ages and

ages . In diferent nations and diferent groups of people they were

diferent too , though the times were the same . Even in the same

nation children rights were equally respected , and violated. For

example in ancient Egypt one of the pharaohs ordered to kill aall male ,

new-born jewish children , because he thought , thst the jewish

(hebrew) people became more powerful than they , egyptians were.

According to the Bible , he said unto his people:

Behold , the people of Israel

are more and mightier than we.

And he said , When ye do the office

of a midwife to the hebrew women ,

and see then upon the stools ;

if it be a son , then ye shall kill hhim :

but if it be a daugter then she shall live.

Of course , it was the roughest breaking of children rights. But in the

same country , almost at the same time , small – agged prince

Tuthanchathon sat oon the the throne . His aunt wanted to occupy the

throne herself , that means to break his , as pharaoh_s child_s and

throne heir_s, rights,but this time child_s rights

defence worked realy strongly , because Tuthanchathon was an egyptian ,

not jewish child , and , of course , pharaoh_s son.

The same kind of violation of children rights was in Sparta – they

killed children too , but this time – for another reason. From five

years age spartians took their male children to the military trainings.

And if a child was too weak for such trainings , they killed him.It_s

a strict breaking of child_s rights , because children can_t chose ,

what physical or mental shape will tthey born.

But the times were changing , so the attitude towards children

rights was changing too. Masive and cruel children killing was stopped.

Of course , that doesn_t mean , that the violation of child_s rights

was stopped too. For example in Midle-ages in Europe parents could hand

over their just – born children to abbeys , could chose them any

profession they want or even to set up a marriage without asking them.

Also children often had to wwork very hardly , and at work they had to

keep up eaqually with adults , otherwise they were punished. But after

some hundreds years passed , that kind of kind of child_s neglect had

vanished too , and step by step children were admitted to the circle of