New Zealand abuse high
On June - 23 - 2010
Family First: Child Abuse Rate Shows We’re Still Failing
CALL FOR COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO CHILD ABUSE
Family First NZ says that the latest rates of CYF notifications are horrendous and shows a continuing failure to tackle the real causes.
“NZ’ers were completely opposed to the anti-smacking law because they knew that it was a smoke-screen for tackling the real causes of child abuse – the far harder issues of drug and alcohol abuse, family breakdown, violence in our media, mental illness and other key factors identified by UNICEF, CYF and Children’s Commissioner reports,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.
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http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/family-first-child-abuse-rate-shows-we039re-still-failing/5/52962
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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