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Laws Protecting Children in Australia
Summary: Discusses the Australian Government and its laws protecting children. Examines how such laws have evolved over the past two centuries. Explores the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and describes what rights children receive under that declaration.
The needs for laws involving young people have increased over time. Therefore, laws protecting children are more recent and largely a product of the last 2 centuries.
Discuss how the government has intervened.
Children are and have always been an integral part of our society, as without them the human race would have no future. However, until recently, there have not been laws regarding the treatment of children. The governments worldwide had not considered the needs of children, and societies mind was not inclined to view children with any rights. This view needed to change as the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that everyone was entitled to the rights stated in it. Children were not receiving those rights, so the UN gathered together to change the negative views of children.
In 1989 the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted unanimously by all the...
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