THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS OF CHILD’S RIGHT ACT AMONG STUDENT’S

ABSTRACT

This project the level of awareness of child’s right act among student’s in the university of Benin. The objectives of this work will be analyzed on the following: To determine the level of awareness on child protection provision in the child right act among the students of the University of Benin, to identify the level of awareness on prescription on the responsibilities of the Child on the child rights act among the students of the University of Benin,   to identify the level of awareness on child protection provision in the child rights act among the students of the University of Benin, to identify the extent respondents are aware of the provisions for Child justice and arbitration in the Child’s right act, to identify the extent respondents are aware of the provision of the act on Child’s welfare. This study adopted the structured questionnaire as the instrument of data collection; the questionnaire was made up on twenty questions drawn from the research questions. The method of data analysis was analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). Simple descriptive statistics such as percentage and tables. The findings reported that awareness of provisions of the Law have been observed to be central to putting an end to harmful cultural practices which persists in time with awareness, many people became conscious of practices which are considered derivations from the expected and ideal behaviors. Awareness therefore becomes the first step towards addressing most of those persistent ills in our society today.         The findings of this research indicated that the Child’s Right Act was known by many respondents.  It can be argued then that awareness alone may not be able to reduce the source of Child Abuse. Other variables in the cultural system still play a role in the persistence of many harmful practices against the provisions of the Child’s Right Act. From the foregoing, we can conclude that awareness of provision in the Child’s Right Act (2003) is high among respondents. The research therefore make the following recommendations that a specific arrangements should be made to reach the populations who are still not aware of the provisions of the Child’s Right Act (2007) in order to bridge information gaps, further research should be carried out to understand the reasons why Child exploitation and abuse still persist, criminal Convictions for those engaged in form of Child abuse must be made public to serve as a deferent to those who may want to engage in such behaviors, infringement in the Child’s Right Act must be seen to be unacceptable by leaders of thought in society and constituted authority.