Crianças e adolescentes: necessidades e direitos

Abstract

This paper is a first approach to the theme of the needs and rights of children and adolescents, raised latley to the category of subjects of civillaws. since the approval of the Child and Adolescent Statute. It discloses at the outset that children and adolescents do not constitute an homogeneous whole, uprising the debate about the assistance to basic needs, wich mar perversely compose a minimalist citizenship. It's also considered the existence of a hidden segment pertaining to the infant - juvenile population whose obscurity is due to the concentration of efforts to attent the requirements of the border sections of that population. The new individual subjects are not ful/y recognized because the comunity, although having more easily respected the social rights, still has difficulties to accept freedom and authonomyas integrating the civil and political rights, for this section of the population. The reflections developed about the applianee of social rights - through social politcs - show that the transfer of the needs paradigm to the rights psradigm has contribuited to situare the child and adolescent among the concern of the municipality - privileged cust the enforcement of those right - nevertheless the is still a long WaY to be investigated before it can be staked the children and adolescents have their rights factually granted