Children Are Safer From Strangers In Park Than Their Own Bedroom
UK– Children are safer playing out in the street or their local park, a landmark report by the NSPCC shows
Educating young people about traditional “stranger danger” is failing to equip them for new “emerging threats” on social networking sites and through phenomena such as “sexting” or cyberbullying, it warns. Meanwhile the report, billed as the comprehensive study of risks to children in the UK, also warns only a small a fraction of abuse or neglect in the home is being detected. Only around one in nine of the estimated 520,000 children mistreated in their own home every year is under formal protection plans by their local authority, the charity calculates. Even on official figures, children are twice as likely to suffer mistreatment in the home than outside, but the report concludes that abuse is “more often than not undetected”. 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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