Social Actuality Presupposed by Concretized Constitutional Norms in the Context of Children‘s Rights
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Abstract
Despite various social, economical, political and legal changes that have occurred since 1992 when the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania was enacted, the socio-economical,
political and legal status of children as a social object is not satisfactory in the society in Lithuania. The legal and social status of children in Lithuania is discussed in the context
of their social reality presupposed by the Constitutional provisions concretized by administrative legal norms.
The article discusses the process of the creation of the legal basis for children’s rights during the period of the enactment of the Constitution to this day.
1. Children’s rights and status in the context of the Constitution of Lithuania;
2. Children’s rights and status in the context of the laws of Lithuania;
3. The current social status of children presupposed by the legal norms as concretized by Constitutional provisions;
4. Influence of the political will in promoting, supporting and enforcing the rights of children and improving their current social status.
The following suggestions were made at the end of the article:
- A child is a value protected and defended by the Constitution. Politicians must carry out their direct and constitutionally foreseen responsibility to protect this value by transforming
the Constitutional provisions into concrete legal norms by way of the mechanism of the Administrative Law to effectively regulate social and public relations;
- To unify the definition of a child as a legal subject;
- To expand the sphere of the competence of administrative norms and regulative powers, to apply the administrative method of regulation in all fields (public administration, social and even private) that directly or indirectly influence or affect the interests of a child, social wellbeing, protection and safeguarding of children’s rights;
- To increase dialogue between governmental, municipal and non-governmental institutions in order to create social technologies (to foresee aims and objectives of social management and its solutions) and effectively apply in law the aspect of social management and improvement of the legal and social status of children.
Despite the extensive policies drawn up by governmental institutions the current social status of children in various aspects is far from the average standing in the European Union or the international level in general. Therefore, it can be said that many of the policies supporting and promoting children’s rights contain a rather declarative character and are not implemented
duly. Governmental institutions, therefore should observe and look for new ways and tools (for example, close cooperation with the non-governmental sector) of how to better implement and put into practice these policies, so that they would loose their declarative character and become more tangible in the aspect of improving the status of children.
political and legal status of children as a social object is not satisfactory in the society in Lithuania. The legal and social status of children in Lithuania is discussed in the context
of their social reality presupposed by the Constitutional provisions concretized by administrative legal norms.
The article discusses the process of the creation of the legal basis for children’s rights during the period of the enactment of the Constitution to this day.
1. Children’s rights and status in the context of the Constitution of Lithuania;
2. Children’s rights and status in the context of the laws of Lithuania;
3. The current social status of children presupposed by the legal norms as concretized by Constitutional provisions;
4. Influence of the political will in promoting, supporting and enforcing the rights of children and improving their current social status.
The following suggestions were made at the end of the article:
- A child is a value protected and defended by the Constitution. Politicians must carry out their direct and constitutionally foreseen responsibility to protect this value by transforming
the Constitutional provisions into concrete legal norms by way of the mechanism of the Administrative Law to effectively regulate social and public relations;
- To unify the definition of a child as a legal subject;
- To expand the sphere of the competence of administrative norms and regulative powers, to apply the administrative method of regulation in all fields (public administration, social and even private) that directly or indirectly influence or affect the interests of a child, social wellbeing, protection and safeguarding of children’s rights;
- To increase dialogue between governmental, municipal and non-governmental institutions in order to create social technologies (to foresee aims and objectives of social management and its solutions) and effectively apply in law the aspect of social management and improvement of the legal and social status of children.
Despite the extensive policies drawn up by governmental institutions the current social status of children in various aspects is far from the average standing in the European Union or the international level in general. Therefore, it can be said that many of the policies supporting and promoting children’s rights contain a rather declarative character and are not implemented
duly. Governmental institutions, therefore should observe and look for new ways and tools (for example, close cooperation with the non-governmental sector) of how to better implement and put into practice these policies, so that they would loose their declarative character and become more tangible in the aspect of improving the status of children.
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