Article VI. Rights and Responsibilities
Section 1. Rights of Children
(1) Children have the right to be raised properly in a good household.
(2) Teach them good manners for them to be respectful of their parents and other people.
(3) Send them to school so that they will have a good life in the future.
(4) Give them the freedom to choose what can make them happy and can give them a good life.
(5) Do not neglect them so that they will not stray from our culture and traditional way of life.
(6) Let us guide them toward the word of God so that their path in life will be good and they will not do evil.
(7) Let us give them a good source of living in the future.
(8) They have the right to defend the ancestral domain given by God.
(9) They have the right to decide the right thing to do.
(10) They have the right to defend themselves when oppressed by other people.
(11) They have the right to live here on earth with dignity.
(12) They have the right to have their decision respected.
Section 2. Rights of Elders
(1) They have the right to be respected and obeyed by their children.
(2) They have the right to teach their children to be good.
(3) They have the right to guide their children and be followed by them.
(4) They have the right to plan for a good future for their family.
(5) They have the right to be citizens.
(6) They have the right to fight for their rights in their laws.
(7) They have the right to fight for their land.
(8) They have the right to be indignant when they are oppressed.
(9) They have the right to live in peace.
(10) They have the right to execute their decisions.
(11) They have the right to have another wife when necessary.
(12) They have the right to defend the culture and traditional beliefs.
(13) They have the right to solve problems.
(This post is a part of a series on Kitab, the customary law of the Dulangan Manobos. See my introductory post for the list of posts containing all the sections of the law. You may also see the original Filipino version on Scribd.)
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