Introduction
A child is a human being meaning that if there are rights set a side to protect human beings, children should therefore have their own rights. If children are not protected, they are likely to fall victims of exploitation and abuse of different kinds. This simply explains the reason why the United States have formed an organization known as the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of Children whose role is to protect children against abuse and exploitation. The purpose of this study is to answer two questions related to children rights.
Discussion
How does cultural variation around sex and sexuality fit with United Nations Convention on the rights of the child? What are the challenges faced by UNCRC? Are there principles, or limits to the conditions for psychological intervention or programs of change?
Cultural variation portrayed by different nations in the world play a key role in protecting children against sex and sexual abuse. The implication is that cultural variation a round sex and sexuality can be integrated into the United Nations conventions on the rights of a child by the introduction of universal sexuality education to all nations. This sexuality education should focus on all aspect of child abuse.
For instance, it has been noted that sexuality education differ from one nation to another meaning that in some nations sexuality education focus on abstinence only while in others it focus on reproduction. In addition, others nations consider school as being responsible for sexuality education with parents playing just a mere role.
However, in others nations, parents play major role in sexuality education among their children. Since the United Nations convention on the rights of a child protect all children against sexual abuse and exploitation, universal sexuality education system should be established to fight cultural variations with an aim of protecting rights of children effectively. As mentioned within the context of the study, the United Nations convention on rights of a child is faced by challenges associated with cultural variations (Montgomery 84).
The other challenge facing UNCRC is that in some nation rights of children are practiced differently. For instance, sexuality education is perceived different in many nations thus creating environment in which children could not understood their rights hence being prone to abuse of various kinds. Family relations can be considered as causing both psychological and physical health to the children and should therefore be integrated into decision making about intervention.
Numerous studies have evident that homeless children are more prone to sexual abuse. The state of being homeless is a product of family relationships meaning that when the mother and father are not in good terms, children may become uncomfortable and ran a way from home thus becoming homeless (Montgomery 79).
Comments on the influence of online media on gender and sexuality for adolescents and on continuity or the lack of continuity between generations on these issues.
The technological advancement has posed threat on gender and sexuality for adolescents. For instance, through online media traditional gender roles have being eroded by emergent of equity between male and female. It is from online media that many adolescents came into the realization that all people are equal despite their differences in sex.
Online media provides fertile grounds through which young females could discover that their personalities have been exploited by traditional gender roles. They have come to understand their potential hence competing men in life. Young female have come to discover their potential of becoming the best doctors, engineers, military officers and architectures among others (Montgomery 142).
In addition, they have discovered that they have the potential to provide for their children thus neglecting the role of the husband in the family. In the other hand, online media such as internet have acted as social grounds for many adolescents. Through the use of internet, adolescents can access phonographic images that influence them sexually. This is to say that adolescents can learn numerous sexual behaviors from online media.
Some of sexual behaviors that can be learnt through online media include gay activities and lesbians activities that form the basis of homosexuality. The implication is that if adolescents are given the opportunity to access online media traditional gender roles will be replaced by modern gender roles and homosexuality will advance in the near future meaning that homosexual generation will come into existence (Montgomery 146).
Work Cited
Montgomery, Heather. An introduction to childhood: anthropological perspectives on children’s lives. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.Print.