Christmas Child Abuse Hotline Calls Overwhelming
On December - 27 - 2011
Christmas calls to Childline up after debt stress
SAD: Children’s charity had call every minute
ALMOST one child a minute contacted Childline for support on Christmas Day. The ISPCC said 1,384 youngsters looked for help on Christmas Day — 38pc up on last year — with many experiencing family difficulties and loneliness. Margie Roe, national Childline manager, said for most children Christmas is a time to have fun and spend time with family, but for many others it can be a time of fear, stress and trauma with alcohol abuse having a huge negative impact. READ MORE HERE
---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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