Child Discernment, a Global Problem

Abstract

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) related to the rights of the child, on the one hand, in articles 12, 13, 14 and 15, regulates the freedoms of thought, opinion, conscience and religion, as well as association and free expression, on the other hand. Objectives: also, the holders of obligations for the child’s best interest have the duty to turn these rights into reality as a direct guarantee of respecting their interests. Therefore, the state has an obligation to create the possibility that no child is marginalized in the realization of these fundamental freedoms through all possible measures. Research methods: right compared to the position in Rep. Moldova, USA, Georgia, etc. in relation to legislative changes, jurisprudence with special regard to the cases resolved by the ECHR in the field, theoretical methods such as the comparative, historical, sociological method of course regarding the discernment of the child, because the methods used are strictly subordinate to the proposed purpose. Results and implications of the study: the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), in its general comment no. 12 (2009), shows that the practices through which the contribution of children is required to rise to certain levels of honest and moral participation of children.