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Read the full translation of the Constitution. The following constitutional provisions address children's rights: Article 21 About the Imprisonment of People Article 27 About the Use of the Mass Communication Media Article 53 About Children Article 54 About the Required Protection for a Child Article 56 About Youth Chapter VII addresses the right to education (articles 73-84) Article 90 About the Work of Minors Article 146 About Natural Nationality
(1) Those people deprived of their freedom will be kept in adequate establishments, in which the mixture of sexes should be avoided. Minors will not share the same establishments with adults.
Advertising will be regulated by law to better protect the rights of children, youths, illiterates, consumers, and women.
(1) Every parent has the right and obligation to care for, to feed, to educate, and to support his children while they are minors. The laws will punish those parents who fail to comply with their duty to provide their children with food.
(2) Children who are no longer minors must provide assistance to their parents if necessary.
(3) The law will regulate the assistance that should be given to large families and to women who are the head of the family.
(4) All children are equal before the law. This makes it possible for every child to investigate who his parents are. It is hereby forbidden to make any statements about the affiliation in personal documents.
(1) Families, society, and the State have the obligation of guaranteeing a child the right to a harmonious, comprehensive development, as well as the right to fully exercise his rights by protecting him against abandonment, undernourishment, violence, abuse, trafficking, or exploitation. Anyone can demand that a competent authority comply with these guarantees and punish those who fail to comply with them.
(2) In case of conflict, the rights of the child will prevail.
The State will promote conditions conductive to the active participation by the young people in the political, socio-economic, and cultural development of the country.
Priority will be given to the rights of working minors to guarantee their normal physical, intellectual, and moral development.
(1) The following are natural Paraguayan nationals:
1. Those persons who were born in the territory of the Republic;
2. Those children who were born abroad to a Paraguayan father mother, either or both, who were at the service of the Republic;
3. Those children who were born abroad to a Paraguayan father or mother and who have decided to reside permanently in the Republic; and
4. Children of unknown parents, found within the territory of the Republic.
(2) An interested party, if it has reached the age of 18, will obtain formal recognition of the right granted under section 3) above by simply making a statement. If the person has not reached this age yet, a statement to this effect by its legal representative will be valid until the minor becomes 18, at which time he may confirm his representative's statement.