Your ability to enjoy time together with your parents and to enjoy their company is a significant element of your family life.
You have the right to be cared for. At the same time, your parents have a right and obligation to care for you. To do that, your parents have the right to have access to you. This allows you both to develop and maintain your relationship.
There may be situations where you are separated from your family. In such case both you and your parents may wish to be together again and be reunited.
All of these rights - your right to be cared for, to maintain contact with your parents and to return to your family after separation - are protected by a human right called the right to a family life.
About this section
In this section, you can learn about significant aspects of your relationship with your parents which are protected by the human right to a family life.
important This section is meant mainly for children and adolescents and, therefore, the information has been given from their perspective and in a simplified manner.
You can find information about these aspects of a child-parent relationship from a parent’s perspective in the section Parents.