Safeguarding and Protection for Children Rights

Children spend their significant amount oftheir young life in their direct home environment, usually under the supervisionof their parents. In that environment, they interact with their parents, siblings, as well as other family members and neighbours. The“amount of time,” however, over the last few decades,children spend with the given family members and neighbours as well as the type of interactions they have with them, have taken a completely changed form for certain factors. Some of the factors include maternal employment, changing family structures, and increasing immigration. From this perspective,Taguma, Litjens, Makowiecki, and Early (2012) point out, “Parental engagement refers to the formal and informal relations that parents have withECEC services.