Today, we are celebrating World Children’s Day.

It is interesting that childhood – the most vulnerable period in a person’s life – is the most formative years.

Children are vulnerable because they are dependent on adults for protection, care, and guidance. They may be at risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. This is probably why protecting children is a natural human impulse. 

It is a truth universally acknowledged: every child deserves the love, care, and support of a family. Every child has every right.

Publisher’s Note: This write-up was first published in http://princesaeiya.tumblr.com, the website where I write about the mundane and the extraordinary going ons in my life.

For about five years, our office has worked on giving abandoned and neglected children another chance at finding a family through a comprehensive law on alternative child care. With the passage into law of this measure, hopefully, we have improved their chances.

Republic Act No. 11642 or the Domestic Administrative Adoption and Alternative Child Care Act was signed into law on the 6th of January 2021 and published in the Official Gazette on the 13th of January. In addition to making adoption purely an administrative process, the law makes it more efficient and less costly by streamlining and simplifying the requirements and processes. It also creates a new agency that will exclusively handle adoption and other alternative child care cases.