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Chapter IV

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STATE, FAMILY AND SOCIETY IN PROTECTING, FOSTERING YOUTHS AGED BETWEEN FULL SIXTEEN AND UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS

Article 28.- Responsibilities of the State:

1. To adopt policies to ensure that youths aged between full sixteen and under eighteen years to complete the universal education program; to create conditions for them to have job training, to select jobs, to take part in entertainment, recreation, cultural, art, physical training and sport activities suitable to their capabilities and age groups; to exempt or reduce charges for visits to museums, historical, cultural and revolutionary relics.

2 To protect youths aged between full sixteen and under eighteen years from sexual abuse and labor exploitation.

3. To guarantee the implementation of penal, administrative and civil policies towards youths aged between full sixteen and under eighteen years in accordance with the provisions of law with a view to protecting and creating favorable conditions for them to develop healthily.

Article 29.- Responsibilities of family

1. To care for, protect, foster and create conditions for youths aged between full sixteen and under eighteen years to complete the universal education program, to have job training, vocational education, to participate in entertainment, recreation, cultural, art, physical training and sport activities suitable to their age groups.

2. Parents and other adult members in families shall have to build abundant, happy, equal and progressive families, creating a healthy environment for the allsided personality development of youths aged between full sixteen and under eighteen years.

3. To manage and educate youths aged between full sixteen and under eighteen years so that they do not drop out of school at their own will, do not leave the families and lead a street life, do not smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and beverages of alcoholic content of 14% or higher; to prevent and combat social vices and not to break law.

Article 30.- Responsibilities of schools

1. To build a healthy educational environment, creating conditions for youths aged between full sixteen and under eighteen years to have passion for learning, for knowledge, to actively train themselves in morality and way of living.

2. To raise the quality of programs on physical and aesthetic education; to provide guidance on health care, productive health, friendship, love, skills to prevent school diseases and social vices for youths aged between full sixteen and under eighteen years.

3. To coordinate with agencies, organizations and families in creating conditions for pupils to participate in cultural, sport, entertainment, recreation and other extracurricular activities.

Article 31.- Application of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to the youths aged between full sixteen and under eighteen years

The State shall implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has ratified for application to the youths aged between full sixteen and under eighteen years suitable to Vietnamese conditions.