Conditional Citizens by Catherine Hartung

Author:Catherine Hartung
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore

In her experience of NGOs working in the area of children and young people’s participation in the Philippines, public policy scholar Sharon Bessell (2007) notes some significant reservations with conceptualising children and young people as capable of handling conventionally ‘adult’ tasks. Drawing on the Barangay Councils for the Protection of Children , in which each council includes a child representative, Bessell brings attention to the heavy expectations placed on children, involving experiences that anyone, regardless of age, could find potentially quite upsetting if not given the relevant support or resources. As Bessell (2007: 10–11) states:In some Barangay, enormous responsibility falls to the Council’s child representative . For example, if a child is removed from a situation of abuse, the child representative may be called upon to make hospital visits or accompany the child to the police station. Some NGO representatives expressed concern that this level of responsibility and involvement has the potential to overburden and traumatise children.

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