Prof. Ferran Casas Doctor in social psychology. Director of the Research Institute on Quality of Life. I think they are already demonstrating they can become competent social actors.
Children have the chance to reinvent communications, culture and community.
In a large part of our European society there is a growing concern and awareness that our children, the child population as a whole, requires more attention from us in the immediate future at all social levels. Present process of change already requires debate about new rights and new responsibilities. Taken as a whole, the recognition of such rights creates new forms of children's presence in society, new forms in which children assume social responsibilities, new ways for adults to be with children , and to listen to them as competent people and as subjects with rights . The implementation of such rights is perhaps one of the most profound challenges which the Convention poses to European society and probably to all industrialized countries. Those who have direct responsibility for children, or for childhood policies, understand its importance whilst also appreciating the great doubts and uncertainties which it creates.