 Is the age span ranging from birth to

adolescence. (wikipedia)

 Is the time for children to be in school and at

play, to grow strong and confident with the
love and encouragement of their family and
an extended community of caring adults.
(unicef.org)
 toddlerhood Early childhood

Middle childhood Adolescence

 A young person who is developing into
an adult and who is going through
Adolescence.
Is a transitional stage of physical and
mental development that occurs between
childhood and adulthood(10-19 years).
 Was established on December 10,1974
 Known as the “Child and Youth Welfare
Code”
 It applies to persons below twenty-one years
of age
 An extensive code for children of the
Philippines containing four books and 2270
articles.
 (1) Every child is endowed with the dignity and
worth of a human being from the moment of his
conception, as generally accepted in medical
parlance, and has, therefore, the right to be born
well.
 (2) Every child has the right to a wholesome family
life that will provide him with love, care and
understanding, guidance and counseling, and moral
and material security.
 (3) Every child has the right to a well-rounded
development of his personality to the end that he
may become a happy, useful and active member of
society.
 (4) Every child has the right to a balanced diet,
adequate clothing, sufficient shelter, proper
medical attention, and all the basic physical
requirements of a healthy and vigorous life.
 (5) Every child has the right to be brought up in an
atmosphere of morality and rectitude for the
enrichment and the strengthening of his character
 (6) Every child has the right to an education
commensurate with his abilities and to the
development of his skills for the improvement of his
capacity for service to himself and to his fellowmen.
 (7) Every child has the right to full opportunities for
safe and wholesome recreation and activities,
individual as well as social, for the wholesome use of
his leisure hours.
 (8) Every child has the right to protection
against exploitation, improper influences,
hazards, and other conditions or circumstances
prejudicial to his physical, mental, emotional,
social and moral development.
 9) Every child has the right to live in a
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community and a society that can offer him an

environment free from pernicious influences
and conducive to the promotion of his health
and the cultivation of his desirable traits and
attributes.
 (10) Every child has the right to the care,
assistance, and protection of the State,
particularly when his parents or guardians fail
or are unable to provide him with his
fundamental needs for growth, development,
and improvement.
 (11) Every child has the right to an efficient and
honest government that will deepen his faith in
democracy and inspire him with the morality of the
constituted authorities both in their public and private
lives.
 (12) Every child has the right to grow up as a free
individual, in an atmosphere of peace, understanding,
tolerance, and universal brotherhood, and with the
determination to contribute his share in the building
of a better world
 Its
aim is to recognize the rights of
children and young people and ensure
that they grow up in the spirit of peace,
dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and
solidarity.
 ARTICLE 2:1
Respect and ensure the rights of child within
jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind.
ARTICLE 7:1
Register the child immediately after birth.
ARTCLE 9:1
A child shall not be separated from his/her parents
against his will.
ARTICLE 14:1
Respect the rights of child to freedom of thought,
conscience, and religion.
 ARTICLE 15:1
Recognize the rights of the child to freedom of
association, and peaceful assembly.
ARTICLE 16:1
The child has the right to the protection of the law
against such interference or attacks.
ARTICLE 17:a,b
Recognize the important function of mass media and
ensure that the child access to information from diversity.
ARTICLE18:1
Both parents have common responsibilities for the
upbringing and development of the child.
 ARTICLE 19:1
Protect the child from all forms of physical or mental
violence, injury and maltreatment.
ARTICLE 20:1
Provide assistance to a child temporarily deprived of a
family environment.
ARTICLE 21:1
Permit of adoption that shall ensure that the best interests
of the child shall be the paramount consideration.
ARTICLE 26:1
Recognize for every child the right to benefit from social
security.
 ARTICLE 28:1
Recognize the right of the child to education with a
view to achieving this right progressively and on the
basis of equal opportunity.
ARTICLE 32:1
Recognize the right of the child to be protected from
economic exploitation and from performing any work
that is likely to be hazardous.
 ARTICLE 1
A child means every human being below the age of eighteen years
unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained
earlier.
ARTICLE 2
States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present
Convention to each child within their jurisdiction without
discrimination of any kind.
States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the
child is protected against all forms of discrimination or punishment.
ARTICLE 3
States Parties undertake to ensure the child such protection and care as
is necessary for his or her well-being,
States Parties shall ensure that the institutions, services and facilities
responsible for the care or protection of children
 ARTICLE 4
States Parties shall undertake all appropriate legislative,
administrative, and other measures for the implementation of the
rights recognized in the present Convention.
ARTICLE 5
States Parties shall respect the responsibilities, rights and duties of
parents
ARTICLE 6
States Parties recognize that every child has the inherent right to life.
States Parties shall ensure to the maximum extent possible the
survival and development of the child.
ARTICLE 7
The child shall be registered immediately after birth
States Parties shall ensure the implementation of these rights in
accordance with their national law and their obligations
 ARTICLE 8
States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his
or her identity.
ARTICLE 9
States Parties shall ensure that a child shall not be separated from his
or her parents against their will.
ARTICLE 10
A child whose parents reside in different States shall have the right to
maintain on a regular basis.
ARTICLE 11
States Parties shall take measures to combat the illicit transfer and
non-return of children abroad.
ARTICLE 12
States Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or
her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters
affecting the child.
 ARTICLE 13
The child shall have the right to freedom of expression
ARTICLE 14
States Parties shall respect the right of the child to freedom of thought,
conscience and religion.
States Parties shall respect the rights and duties of the parents
ARTICLE 15
States Parties recognize the rights of the child to freedom of
association and to freedom of peaceful assembly.
ARTICLE 16
The child has the right to the protection of the law against such
interference or attacks.
ARTICLE 17
States Parties recognize the important function performed by the mass
media and shall ensure that the child has access to information and
material from a diversity of national and international sources.
 ARTICLE 18
States Parties shall use their best efforts to ensure recognition of the
principle that both parents have common responsibilities for the
upbringing and development of the child.
ARTICLE 19
States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative,
social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of
physical or mental violence.
ARTICLE 20
A child temporarily or permanently deprived of his or her family
environment.
ARTICLE 21
States Parties that recognize and/or permit the system of adoption shall
ensure that the best interests of the child.
ARTICLE 22
States Parties shall take appropriate measures to ensure that a child
who is seeking refugee status or who is considered a refugee .
 ARTICLE 23
States Parties recognize that a mentally or physically disabled child
should enjoy a full and decent life.
ARTICLE 24
States Parties recognize the right of the child to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment
of illness and rehabilitation of health.
ARTICLE 25
States Parties recognize the right of a child who has been placed by
the competent authorities for the purposes of care.
ARTICLE 26
States Parties shall recognize for every child the right to benefit from
social security, including social insurance.
ARTICLE 27
States Parties recognize the right of every child to a standard of living
adequate for the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social
development.
 ARTICLE 28
States Parties recognize the right of the child to education.
ARTICLE 29
States Parties agree that the education of the child shall be directed.
ARTICLE 30
In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities or
persons of indigenous origin exist, a child belonging to such a
minority or who is indigenous shall not be denied the right
ARTICLE 31
States Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure
ARTICLE 32
States Parties recognize the right of the child to be protected from
economic exploitation.
ARTICLE 33
States Parties shall take all appropriate measures, to protect children
from the illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances
 ARTICLE 34
States Parties undertake to protect the child from all forms of
sexual exploitation and sexual abuse
ARTICLE 35
States Parties shall take all appropriate national, bilateral and
multilateral measures to prevent the abduction
ARTICLE 36
States Parties shall protect the child against all other forms of
exploitation prejudicial to any aspects of the child's welfare.
ARTICLE 37
No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel.
No child shall be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully.
Every child deprived of liberty shall be treated with humanity and
respect.
ARTICLE 38
States Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for rules of
international humanitarian law applicable to them in armed
conflicts which are relevant to the child.
 ARTICLE 39
States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to
promote physical and psychological recovery and social
reintegration of a child victim.
ARTICLE 40
States Parties recognize the right of every child alleged.
ARTICLE 41
Nothing in the present Convention shall affect any
provisions which are more conducive to the realization of
the rights of the child .
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