Or about love for a daughter
By Anatoly PIDDUBNY
June 1 is internationally observed as Children's Defense Day. In
Ukraine it is an apt occasion for more discussion, general and very specific
complaints about our "independent" state not showing enough care for children
(as if it shows any greater concern for adults!).
Of course, they are right to complain and trying to argue to the contrary
would be futile, except for some dubious points. For example, why do we
say Mother Ukraine and often use the first part of the appellation derisively?
Maybe we should regard our land as both mother (to whom we are forever
indebted) and daughter, because her well-being entirely depends on how
much effort we exert to that end?
Children prove to live better in countries where parents respect their
native land. One does not have to repeat the adage about loving one's son
or daughter, for those that do need not hear it to know it. And those that
do not need not hear it, because no words, spoken or printed,. will make
them change their attitude.
By Anatoly PIDDUBNY, ZAPORIZHZHIA
N.B.: Prosecutorial office investigations revealed over 30,000
transgressions involving children's rights, The Day was told
by Natalia Sherstova Senior Legal Chancellor, head of the Juvenile Delinquency
Oversight Department of the General Prosecutor's Office. Basically, these
transgressions related to the right to education, also in terms of restructuring
children's institutions, health care, the right to work, cases involving
militia juvenile divisions, but mostly focusing on guardianship and custody.
Random checks made in seven oblasts, concerning children's R&R facilities,
resulted in over 50 criminal cases and instances of corruption. All told,
3,640 cases were challenged as unlawful by the prosecutor last year; 412
criminal cases were opened, more than 9,000 bureaucrats served 15,500 reprimands.
The Verkhovna Rada will soon hear the childhood protection bill, so maybe
its enactment will make the situation better, if only a little, reports
The Day's Nina SOTNYK.







