Community Violence And How It Affects School Aged Children

While reviewing the various Human Rights that have been designated by the United Nations for safeguarding the children in the world, there appeared to be a strong correlation with some articles and the research topic that my group has proposed. My group has suggested for a topic examining community violence and how it affects school aged children. This topic will attempt to show a correlation how violence that takes place in urban environments can have an adverse effect on children and their learning patterns causing a decline in education. The three articles that address this topic of rights of children are; article 19, article 29, and article 39. Article 19 states that â€Å"parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury, or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child (Reichert, 2006).† Children who live in low socioeconomic neighborhoods frequently are at a greater risk for violence or become witnesses to violence causing emotional and physical trauma. 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