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Studies on children’s rights and parenting

Marre

Karu,

PhD

Praxis

Centre

for

policy

studies

22.04.2014

Study on parenting support in Europe

(2012

)Monitoring of the rights of the Child and Parenting (2012)Study on children in justice (ongoing)

Three

studies

in

the

field

of

children’s

rights

and

parenting

Commissioned by Eurofound, study of Austria,

Belgium

, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, SwedenFocus on parenting support and education services for families with children of pre-school age.Focus on positive parenting and parenting skills like

communication

, conflict resolution, Policy review: legal context, description of awareness campaigns, information materials, trainings, counselling servicesCase studiesDr Thomas Gordon’s Parent Effectiveness Training Family support programme provided by NGO Hea AlgusPsychological programme for mothers by NGO Avitus

1.

Parenting

support

in

Estonia and

Europe

To create a tool to monitor the development of

the

area of children’s rightsA survey of 1000 children and 1000 adults was carried out in 2012Awareness of the rights

of

the childAttitudes towards the rights e.g. involvement of children in decisions, hearing the childExperiences and behaviour: children in need, violenceRight to both parentsRelationship with parentsDicipline methods, corporal punishmentParents’ need for parenting

support

general satisfaction with life

2.

Monitoring

of

the

rights

of

the

Child

and

Parenting

23% of adults and 16% of children have not heard about the rights of the child.72% of children and 70% of adults strongly agree that hearing children out is as important

as

hearing adults13% of children have witnessed violence at home at least once62% of children have felt that teachers treat them unfairly16% of children feel that their mother doesn’t have enough time for them (22% feel this

about fathers)38% of parents feel that corporal punishment is OK in certain situationParents feel that they should know how to rear children without any help (71%), but about half have needed help and didn’t know where to

get

it. Some

results

of

the

monitoring

Commissioned by the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom

The aim is to analyse how well the justice systems follow the Guidelines on child friendly justice adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 17 November 2010

Child friendly justice: right to be heard, right to be informed, legal representation, best interests of the child; non-discrimination, weight given to child’s opinion, protection, respect and dignity Phase I. Experience of experts in-depth interviews with 60 legal and social professionals (social workers, judges, child protection specialists etc)Phase II Children’s perspective in-depth interviews with 30 children who have attended legal processes as witnesses, parties or victims. Focus on children’s experience - how children were treated;

how

they felt, if they were informed in a child-friendly manner; if they received support; how they were influenced by the hearingsChildren in Justice

Parenting support in Europe

report

ww.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2012/70/en/1/EF1270EN.pdf Monitoring of the Rights of the Child and Parenting (summary in English)http://lasteombudsman.ee/sites/default/files/IMCE/summary_of_the_monitoring_of_the_rights_of_the_child_and_parenting.pdf Guidelines on

child

friendly justice http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/childjustice/Source/GuidelinesChildFriendlyJustice_ET.pdf http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/childjustice/ Sources

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