Chapter 41: Being politically aware and professionally proactive in children and young people’s nursing
1. Which of the following is true?
- 50 per cent of forced marriages involve women
- No man is ever forced to marry
- Forced marriage can involve coercion and violence
- British law allows forced marriage
2. Which of the following are among the principles of lobbying?
- Make your message as complex and sophisticated as possible
- If you don’t know, just blag
- If you are not making progress, get angry and abusive
- Do your homework, be sure of your facts
3. Involving the communities which practise forced marriage in developing strategies to eliminate this custom is:
- Vital
- Futile
- A waste of resources
- Frustrating
4. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is:
- Irrelevant to being politically aware
- A useful framework to support lobbying activity to improve conditions for those 18 and under
- Incomprehensible
- Applies only to young children
5. A petition can trigger a parliamentary debate if:
- Very, very angry people sign it
- Well-educated people can be persuaded to sign
- The people who sign can be proved to understand the political process
- 100 000 people sign it