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Is The Child Mom Responsible For The Situation? 19/11/2010

A Gypsy female child 10 aged gave birth in Spain. Even some neighbours claimed the girl to be a few older than 10 age, it's still true that a child gave birth. Father of the baby is a Roma Gypsy from Romania 13 aged. Young couple migrated to Romania with their families. However, they were divorced a few later. Teenage mother returned to Spain to live together with her family. Spain authorities claim that they will make provision for health of the baby and the mom. But isn't it better to make provisions before a child give birth?

NGOs all over the Europe start to discuss the problem of child mothers with the event. Journalists, activists, NGOs asked again and again the question "isn't 10 age too early to give birth?" with statemens they published. However the authories, who have to be accepted responsible for the situation in reality, avoided the issue with thin statements. Maybe this is a way to be relaxed and to hide their responsibility.

Goverments' social policies have to hinder the problem of giving birth in early ages ,which threaten health of the child mother and make her impossible to have education, under normal conditions. Benefiting from this social policies is the right of all citizens. If any citizen could not benefit from these social policies, it's right to guestion success of the policies.

As we see in this situation, it's common for authorities pass the buck of tragedies like the event giving birth in early ages to victims of tragedies when they are not able to question their policies. Expressions we see in mass media after the event like "Why Gypsies give birth in early ages?", "Is it true to give birth at this age?" aim to hide the strategy of the authorities to put the responsibility of the situation on victims shoulders. If a female child from any part of society give birth in early ages, the authorities who don't make provision at the right time are responsible for the situation, not the victims! Because, all children are under the protection of government with their family until they reach lawful age.

Responsibility of giving birth in early ages belongs to government of the country, where child and its family live in, according to all kind of agreements determining child rights. We have to emphasize that everybody under 18 age is accepted as "child" without asking their ethnicity, language, religion or sect according to definition written in the agreements accepted by all of world states. Universal Declaration of Human Rights also emhasize that all children have the right to be taken care. Related to this, it's indicated that children have to be kept under special protection in Declaration of The Rights of Children signed at 1959. Beside this, it's written in the Convention of The Rights of Children signed at 1989 by all states except USA and Somali: "Contracting countries accept that all children have the right to have a life standard providing their physical, moral, psychological and social growing." (Article 27/1)

Contracting countries are responsible for making laws suitable to the agreements in their national law. If a female child gives birth in any country, her being Gypsy or not is never important. The thing important about the situation is that she is a child. Providing a secure environment for the child is the responsibility of governments. Neglecting to do this duty will cause terrible disasters like giving birth at 10 ten age. NGOs, activists and journalists shouldn't approach the issue with ethnic prejudices. This is not something about ethnicity. This is something about moral responsibility of the authorities.

Source: Cingeneyiz International