Parental Education for Children's Rights

The paper aims to analyze the factors that influence parent's attitudes and behaviours towards children's rights. The research is done in order to develop educational programs to improve parenting and parent relationships with the child and with the educational institution. Assumptions that started research were: parental attitudes towards children's rights are conditioned by the dominant cultural model in the family; recognition and respect for children's rights in the family are subject to constraints of micro-social climate (related with family group functionality but also with the community family lives in); relations with the educational institutions (including the relation with the teachers) is a facilitator factor in promoting and respecting the rights of children by the parents. Research is mixed, including both quantitative methods (questionnaire based survey) and qualitative (focus group and case studies). The research has revealed that not only socio-economical factors are important in conditioning parent's attitudes and behaviours towards children's rights, but also parents awareness and understanding of these rights. Consequently, parental education programs will focus on increasing the understanding and awareness of children's rights, promotion of pro-democratic cultural patterns and learning new ways to manage the problems of intra-familial relationships. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.