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Regional News of Tuesday, 20 January 2004

Source: GNA

Children are obliged to respect their parents

Nkoranza (B/A), Jan. 20, GNA - Miss Joyce Nyamadie, Nkoranza District Director of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has advised children to respect their parents as they are morally and legally obliged to do so.
Miss Nyamadie was speaking at a debate organised for the Junior Youth of Victory Presbyterian Church at Nkoranza to keep them abreast with human rights issues.
The debate was on: "Parental neglect of children, whose fault, parents or children".
The CHRAJ Director quoted the Constitution as stating that a person can enjoy his/her fundamental human rights and freedoms by respecting the rights and freedoms of other people.
Miss Nyamadie urged parents to communicate with their children to find out their needs and to help solve them to avoid them succumbing to ill and bad peer pressure.
Children should heed to the advice from their parents, keep them and be law abiding as such good manners have blessings from god, she said. 20 Jan. 04