A invoice searching for to guard kids from bodily, humiliating, and degrading types of punishment has been filed within the House of Representives.
According to Lei Alviz’s report on “24 Oras,” House Bill No. 1269 filed by Bagong Henerasyon party-list Rep. Bernadette Herrera-Dy is pushing for “positive and non-violent discipline.”
Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed three out of youngsters and adolescents aged 5 to 14 years outdated expertise corporal punishment.
This impacts not solely their bodily growth however even their psychological well being, and educational efficiency.
Children may additionally develop violent tendencies due to this, the WHO added.
In 2019, each chambers of Congress handed a consolidated model of the proposed laws but it surely was vetoed by then-President Rodrigo Duterte. Lawmakers mentioned they’re hopeful the measure can be handed underneath the Marcos administration.
“No child shall be subjected to any form of physical, humiliating acts as a form of punishment… in homes, institutions, alternative care systems, the juvenile welfare system, places of religious worship, and in all other settings where there is direct contact with a child,” Section 5 of the invoice mentioned.
The proposed measure offers for interventions within the barangay degree. It doesn’t stop the submitting of felony circumstances if the offense is punishable underneath the Revised Penal Code and different particular legal guidelines.
It mandates the Department of Social Welfare and Development, Council for the Welfare of Children, Department of the Interior and Local Government, Department of Education, Commission on Higher Education, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, Department of Health, Department of Justice, and Department of Labor and Employment to return up witha program to advertise posirive and nonviolent discipine. —Sundy Locus/NB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
