Section 126: Rights, responsibilities and duties of person exercising maternal and parental authority

The rights, responsibilities and duties of the father or mother who is entitled to exercise the parental authority pursuant to this Chapter shall be as follows:

(a) To keep the minor with him or her, provide company to the minor and watch the minor’s works, actions and behaviours,

(b) To provide food and clothes and to teach him or her to eat, wear and labour,

(c) To provide affection, fondness and love,

(d) To inculcate in him or her social dignity, decency, morals, rites, culture, customs and to educate him or her to behave accordingly;

(e) To provide moral education based on social values such as honesty, self-confidence, self-reliance, integrity, labour, and discipline,

(f) To vigil physical and mental health, to provide and cause to be provided medical treatment,

(g) To provide opportunity, according to necessity, for sports and entertainment,

(h) To make available readable and message-oriented educational materials,

(i) To guide them to remain loyal to the family, society, community, nation and state,

(j) To prevent bad habits, bad associations, and obscene matter,

(k) To teach to obey order, honour, and revere,

(l) To do, or cause to be done, such other act whatsoever as may be required for the development of physical, mental and intellectual personality.