The effect of parents' activities to expand reading human rights picture books on young children's human rights awareness and parents' respect and implementation of children’s rights

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of parents' activities to expand reading human rights picture books on young children's human rights awareness and parents' respect and implementation of children's rights. The subjects of this study were 18 parents of 5-year-old infants and infants enrolled in S kindergarten located in Ch. Parents of infants who participated in this study conducted activities to expand reading of human rights picture books with their children twice a week for 8 weeks. As a result of this study, first, it was found that parents' activities to expand reading of human rights picture books had a significant effect on children's human rights awareness. Second, parents' activities to expand reading of human rights picture books showed a positive effect on parents' respect for and implementation of their children's rights. These results imply that parents' activities to expand reading of human rights picture books with their children have a positive effect on children's human rights awareness as well as their respect for and implementation of their own children's rights. This study implies that children's human rights awareness should be preceded by parents' respect for and implementation of their children's rights in that human rights awareness, which must be formed from infancy, is influenced by the family environment to which children belong, especially parents. This study suggests how important it is to cultivate parents' human rights awareness, and that human rights education that begins at home can play a key role in improving human rights awareness in society as a whole.