The Children Situation in Iran

As a person who grew up in Iran have to tell you that the children situation is the worst it could be if consider the national revenue from its supposed to be nationalized resources.

As a matter of f fact, children don't have any rights in Iran, 100% of the rights of a child is given to his/her parents. If being abused by anyone, it's rare to get attention unless the parents claims and if a parent abusive, there are simply no laws to protect the child against the parent. Many children die each year in Iran because of the abuse of their parents and what even makes the situation worse is the fac that women (mothers of Iran) don't have any rights to defend their children nor themsleves against abusive fathers and in many cases against other abusers.

The childcare situation is something totally elese, a parent could raise the chid any way the parent wants. There is no legal obligation to provide foof, healthcare, babysitting, education, etc and at the same time no laws to avoid child labor or age limitations, to prohibit parents from beating up their children, forcing them into doing things unwillingly, etc.

A child comming from a poor family would starve at scholl and there isn't a single peice of snak ever served by the scholls, however there is a snak shop in all schools that the kids could buy normally expired and overpriced snaks if their parents could affort from threr during launchbreaks.

Many kids would steal food & snaaks from the stores and supermarkets and beaten by the store owners & attendents before taken to custady or kept imprisoned by the store owners and not the authorities before their parents pay for the damages.

The child abuse in Iran is not only legal, but also cultural background of the majority of parents adds to the problems since there is no institutions to thech them about lifetime phisical and psychological effects of child mistreatments.

One way to analize how much really the Islamic Republic government cares about Iran's children is to have a more historical view of the situation.

During tha Quajar dinesty, women & children in Iran situation wasn't much better that the Afghanistan during the Taliban with no modern school system or universal education system. The parents who could affort used to send their children to Maktab-Khaneh or book-reading house to learn very basic literature such as reading, writing and basic math. Then if the parents could affort there were some schools mainly owned by the Europeans to tech more mature education.

When Reza Shah established the Pahlavi dinesty less that a century ago, set the foundations of modern Iran. Before his time Iran was nothing, but a country with no modern economy, modern government system, w/o any modern industries or occupations. He built roads, railroads & tunnels to connect different parts of the country together, brought in new industries and most important than that started to westernize not only the culture, but the whole system. He envisioned an Iran & its people looking and living like the Europeans and Americans that time. Built modern schools, encoraged women to remove their head scarf & people dress in modern clothing, very similar movement to Mustefa Kemal Ata-Turk (father of modern Turkey) and also sponsored many youth to become eeducated in Europe and tech to Iranians.

After his son, Mohamad Reza Shah (the former Shah of Iran) succeeded, with his young and modern visions after long time of life & education in Europe and America, brought up some major systematic & foundamental changes. When he took over power Iran was still a totally undeveloped country, he followed his father's footsteps in a much better planned & realistic approach to further modernize the country.
He started from education, started to build modern schools and universities all over Iran & sponsor thousans of students each year to import knowledge from education in some of the best universities in the world. Moder Iran the way we see now, totally unchanged since he left the country, was formed during his time.
One very significant move was his white revolution, with one very importants & impressive move, to increase the social, political and economical role of women. He developed a so called Development and Intellectual Army, a paid volonteery service similar to military designed for the women to take part in developing, care taking and educating the nation.

Graduate women used to be sent to the most remote places in the country to fight illiteracy & desease.
Also all schools in the country were supplied with free meals for the children, free books, supplies & uniform clothing all removed after the 1979 revolution.

One of the things that adds to the suffering of children in Iran is drug addict parents. The government of Iran (IRGC) continues to pump cheap heroin & opium into the society, in order to have a better control over its rubbed nation plus its a sort of income for the ones involved. Heroin & opium addiction could be so strong that an addict would sacrifse everything to satisfy habbit. The person would muder, pimp his own wife or prostitute self (if a woman) to get the drugs. At the same time heroin & even op addicts become extremely careless about anything in life. Politics, situation of their own familly, children, the way they look, dress, life quality, etc become totally un-noticed to an addict.