Study of Parents Perception on the safety and security of Children in the communities of Birendra Nagar Municipality, Nepal

Abstract

Identification of perception on the safety and security of the parents of school going children was the main objective of the study. The research   design was descriptive to analyzed the perception  of the parents, the statistical analysis was carried out by the  use of SPSS  and sample size  was  determined with  convenience approach  to overcome of the limitations  such as  filtration, marriage, children, school going age  likewise , time and financial. The finding of the research the higher the cognition level, the better the perception of the parents,  it  was  found the correlation with education positive of 0.338  and 60 % parents with higher education were more concern with the safety and security of the children. When the cognition increases the perception increases in the analysis of question, it was justified with the analysis of question 4-with Pearson’s correlation with .338 and question 10 with the correlation -.236, Parents have identified major areas on taking care of safety and securities, home, school and communities, all of these have to bear the responsibility towards the safety and security of the children.  The rights  of the children should be protected, and should be made responsible to the  local government to train and make aware  on time to time to protect the children from dangers, psychologically and physiologically as well.