A gyermeki jogok érvényesítésének akadályai a gyermekvédelmi szakellátásban - különös tekintettel a gyermekotthoni elhelyezésre
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The aim of this study is to explore the contradictions between the child protection framework defined by children’s rights and its practical implementation. As a starting point the formal child protection system and its actors are intoduced, with a particular focus on the paternalistic approach that shapes the system’s operational mechanisms and disfunctions. Central to the analysis is the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, specifically the articles related to the placement of children in residential care, and a comparison of these provisions with Hungary’s 1997 Child Protection Act. The study also utilizes the Handbook on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, released by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the reports of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights concerning child residential care. As a result of research work two main questions are answered: whether the present child protection system can ensure the realization of children’s rights, and to what extent the reform agenda of the Child Protection Act and the Convention are capable of initiating change in the framework of the traditionally paternalistic system.
Author: Tamás Sigmond
Language: English
Topic: Child Welfare and Adoption
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4408990937