Active Citizenship and the Rights of the Egyptian Child "A Field Study of a Sample of Rural Families in Al- Buhaira Governorate”

The current study aimed to achieve three main objectives: for shed light on the values ​​of active citizenship and the efforts of parents in supporting the rights of the child in the rural community, to identify the practices of active citizenship among parents and their commitment to preserving the rights of the child in the rural family, and to reveal the contributions of fathers in promoting Active citizenship and reducing child rights violations in the rural family. The study was based on Giddens' structure formation theory and the indicators of active citizenship used by the European Social Survey in 2002. This study belongs to descriptive research, and relied on the method of the social sample survey, and on the two tools; the questionnaire and observation in collecting data. The sample size was (200) individuals, which were reached by following the snowball method, and the field study was conducted in the village of Dafsho in the center of Kafr Al-Dawwar, Beheira Governorate. The study reached some important results, including: that the rural family is well aware of the rights of its children and tries to preserve them and limit their violation. Fathers do not distinguish between males and females, nor between children in the village for any reason. Fathers play an active and effective role in the village, and enjoy citizenship rights to some extent. And they try to support their children and protect them against any aggression.