Rights of the child and socio-cultural context Zones of perceptual omission of the child in Latin America

Abstract

The implementation of the rights of the child poses a strong socio-cultural challenge. The daily life of Latin American societies still presents circumstances of generic mistreatment and abuse, omitted in the perception of children, which exert a great influence on their development and integral health conditions. This essay formulates, by means of inductive casuistry, cognitive obstacles that exist in the face of the condition of the child in our culture, how they prevent the child from being understood as a subject of law and link them with the proposals from the Convention on the Rights of the Child.