If you answered yes to any of these questions, you're a person who stands up for children, whether they're your own or other people's. You're an advocate because the word advocacy means to speak or write in support of something or someone. We sometimes think of advocacy in a purely political sense, as something that people in Washington do. That's part of advocacy. But advocacy is not just something that other people do.
Children are at the bottom of the power structure.
They have no organized voice, no access to bureaucratic or political systems. Children depend on adults to provide for them and to keep them safe. Every time we accept those responsibilities, we are advocating for children. So advocacy is an action, something we do. It's also a process, and not a very complicated one at that.