Human Rights of Children: An Emerging Story

The worst thing that can be said about a human being is that it would have been better if he had not been born. This is a message a child was told in Sunday school. And what if that child at the same time heard his mother complain to herself, but loud enough to be heard by the boy, "I got you, because of my sins." So the boy starts pondering: Wouldn't it be better if I had not been born at all? What can be done now that he is here? Not all children will hear this inner question about the aim of life in such a clear way as little Elvis did in Elvis and His Friends by Maria Gripe, a Swedish author. Still, all children are facing the same questions: What is the purpose of life? What needs to be done? Children have to grow up and become the human beings they already are.