Taiwan Children Enjoy Low Privacy Right: PollTaiwan scored only 20 out of 100 on children's privacy rights in a poll released Tuesday as the November 20 International Children's Rights Day and the 11th anniversary of the passage of the UN Convention on Children's Rights approach, reported Taiwan media.The survey, conducted by a social progress institution, found over 80 percent of the children interviewed said they believe that their opinions are not respected, while 50 percent of the adults polled said they believe they do respect their children. In terms of privacy, the poll showed that over 70 percent of adults believe that they have the right to check their children's bags and correspondence in order to protect their children regardless of their feelings. Moreover, 93 percent of the adult respondents said that they screen their children's friends, again citing protection as the primary reason. On whether adults respect their children's opinions, over 50 percent of the adult respondents said that children's sense of judgment is insufficient to allow them to make decisions on their own and that decisions should be based mainly on the opinions of the adults. The study showed that although over half of the adults polled do not believe in running their children's lives without giving them a chance to speak their minds, older people living in the countryside with lower levels of education tended to express the belief that children should not talk back to their elders. |
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