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TEACHING KIDS COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
KIDS' RIGHTS
There was a time when children had no rights. They were sold, traded and seen as possessions under the total control of their parents or whoever owned them. In the past century, laws, which were originally written to protect animals (usually pets) in the US, were extended to protect children. Up until the third decade of the 20th Century, children could be left as property in a man's will; their mothers had no right to them. Now, we see children as vulnerable and requiring the protection of law and we've extended the responsibility of reporting child abuse/neglect to anyone who has authority over those children, whether at home, in hospitals, schools or at camps.
UNICEF: Convention on the Rights of the Child
Child Labor in the 19th Century
International Federation of Free Trade Unions
National Resource Center for Child Protective Services
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Legal Services for Children (Northern California)
Campaign on Childhood Mental Illness (NY Times article)