Right to family, identity, and culture

When children are in permanent care of the state, States Parties that have ratified the convention are obliged to ensure those rights (Articles 2) and to ensure the best interests of the child are the primary consideration (Article 3). [...] Lack of active participation of children and youth in the adoption recruitment process and in self-advocacy efforts 4 | P a g e. Draft text for civil society report to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Third/Fourth Report of Canada, convened by the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, October 2010 Children’s Rights in Canada 2011 Working Document:. [...] If children and youth in care were included in the survey, it would begin to provide the data we need to inform 6 | P a g e. Draft text for civil society report to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Third/Fourth Report of Canada, convened by the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, October 2010 Children’s Rights in Canada 2011 Working Document:. [...] Aboriginal children and adoption – a contentious issue The preamble of the Convention on the Rights of the Child states that the child should grow up in a family environment. [...] Furthermore, States should always ensure that the principle of the best interests of the child is the paramount consideration in any alternative care placement of indigenous children and in accordance with article 20 (3) of the Convention pay due regard to the desirability of continuity in the child’s upbringing and to the child’s ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background.