2.2 Status of the Child in Society (esp. Nepal)

The historical: the child-as-property (the patriarchal-economy) → the child-as-beneficiary (the welfare-era) → the child-as-rights-holder (the CRC-revolution (the dignity-recognised (the participation-right-added (the heard-voice-not-only-the-fed-stomach))))); The Nepal's-conditions(the honest-picture): the child-labour's-persistence (the hazardous-forms-despite-the-bans) + the child-marriage's-continuance (the law's-20-floor vs the practice's-earlier-reality) + the trafficking's-shadow + the corporal-punishment's-normalisation-battle + the access-to-education's- gap (the rural-girl's-double-burden (the disability's-exclusion (the Dalit-child's- compounded- disadvantage (the Art-40's-free-education's-remedy-pledged)))); The positive-arc: the birth- registration's-growth + the schooling's-expansion + the child-friendly-justice's-building (the U2.4's- statutory-architecture (the promise-and-the-persistence-together)).