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Parental Rights v. Children Rights? Why Courts Keep Getting It Wrong

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Child sitting on a bench Michał Parzuchowski/Unsplash

Justice works around adults. Keen to uphold parental custody rights, family courts have effectively allowed violence against children by giving abusive parents access. So it is time the legal system stopped ignoring children.

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Society Syria Crisis

Child Beggars Multiply On The Streets Of Damascus

A Syrian child comes back into al-Moadamiya, a district on the outskirts of Damascus that has been besieged by the government troops for months, in Syria, March 2, 2014.
A Syrian child comes back into al-Moadamiya, a district on the outskirts of Damascus that has been besieged by the government troops for months, in Syria, March 2, 2014. Jiang Tieying/Xinhua/ZUMA

Children as young as four are the main breadwinners for some families in the Syrian capital.

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