Resumo

SILVA, A. F. Amaral e. Estatuto da criança e do adolescente: avaliação histórica. Educ. Rev. [online]. 1999, n.15, pp.33-35. ISSN 0104-4060.

The Statute of Children and Teenagers has become 10 years old, and it has been criticized by a society which can’t be submitted to paradigmatic changes concerning children and teenagers. It is very easy to see children and teenagers as “minors”, i.e., not able to be responsible for their history. However, the Statute comes as a humanitarian response to lack of justice suffered by vulnerable children and teenagers, based upon the Doctrine of the United Nations. These children and teenagers are vulnerable due to their poor health and education, lack of respect concerning freedom, dignity and familiar and communitary living conditions. Their Statute is a way of bringing them back to citizen ‘status ‘

Palavras-chave : Statute of Children and Teenagers’; Rights; Citizenship.

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