The role of women empowerment and family planning agency to protect children

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to know how the role of the Empowerment Agency of Women and Family planning in children protection. To obtain this research data, researchers conducted interviews from some people who were set as samples of research. Data analysis using qualitative methods, data analysis techniques used three stages: data reduction, data presentation, and withdrawal of conclusions. The results of this study found that the Women Empowerment and family planning agency have done several actions to protect children through the child protection issue policy in the development effort to the community as well as against children violence and child abandonment through the Women Empowerment Agency and family planning policies. However, there are barriers due to the limited budget owned by the women's Empowerment agency and family planning. Other obstacles from the community were a low education factor, low economic level, and the environment of the barriers will lead to an influence on the success of child protection. Hence the empowerment of women and family planning in child protection has not been entirely successful. Expected impact of women's empowerment and family planning agency is to increase public knowledge and awareness of children's violence as well as declining levels of child violence. However, there are still inhibitory factors that influence the success of child protection and child abuse or violence in children.