Child_Law

Child Law A child is a person and not a sub-person over whom the parent has an absolute possessory interest. The term "child" does not necessarily mean minor but can include adult children as well as adult nondependent children. Children are generally afforded the basic rights embodied by the Constitution. There are both provincial and federal sources of child-rights laws; – Legal Information Institute. I have always wondered just what a child’s rights were in the world and more importantly what exactly child abuse entails. Technically as a 17 year-old I am considered a child or “minor” under the law, therefore this is an issue that is of great concern to me. Internationally children unquestionably lack in legal rights, although in the many cases of child abuse, including mental, physical and sexual abuse; the law takes children more seriously and their protection is of the utmost importance and also, today’s society plays a huge role in the forms of abuse on minors. Child maltreatment is the general term used to describe all forms of child abuse and neglect. There is no one commonly accepted definition of "child abuse and neglect." The Federal Government defines child abuse and neglect in the Child abuse, child, children, sexual, parents, physical, person, mental, parent, abused, one, love, out, injuries, form, family, common, cases, being, adult, about, very, under, times, stress, society, rights, people, likely, include, harm, families, even, emotional, case, been