Saturday, December 4, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Don't Look Away: A Child Abuse Awareness Video
Embedding is disabled, so go to this link to watch it:
Consequences of Child Abuse.
This site explains all the consequences of child abuse in elaborate detail.
An overview:
Types of Child Abuse.
This site offers different category of abuses on a child, it's effects and it's sign.
It includes:
- Emotional Abuse
- Physical Abuse
- Child Neglect
- & Sexual Abuse
Real stories from children.
In this site, you can find real actual stories from children who have received help and have recounted their experience.
You can also search more simply by googling "Real Abuse Stories from Children".
Statistics.
It is important to know about the statistics of this growing situation, and this site is rich in that information.
In this site, it includes:
Child Abuse Statistics
spacerIntroduction - Unavoidable Controversies & Biases, in Historical Contexts Sources of Statistics - Official Numbers, Actual Numbers, & Estimates Statistics Are Human Creations - Tools to Avoid Being Confused & Misled Official Statistics: United States Official Statistics: Canada Official Statistics: Australia Official Statistics: England Official Statistics: International - Includes 2006 United Nations Report Retrospective Survey Research Methods - Tools for Critical Understanding Prevalance of the Sexual Abuse of Boys
Child Abuse Effects and Resources for Healing
spacerEffects of Child Abuse - Basic Information & Frameworks About Therapy & Recovery - Resources to Inform Your Search Resources for Spouses, Partners, Friends, etc. - Suggestions & Resources Resources for Parents & Caregivers - Books, Videos & Web Resources Additional Resources - Hotlines, Book & Article Suggestions, Web Sites Frequently Asked Questions - Pointers to Helpful Resources Announcements - Including Research Studies Related Pages At This Site
Here is an international statistic given from the site:
The report includes the following overview statistics (section II. B., pp. 9-10, with references to specific studies provided for each):
- Almost 53,000 children died worldwide in 2002 as a result of homicide.
- Up to 80 to 98% of children suffer physical punishment in their homes, with a third or more experiencing severe physical punishment resulting from the use of implements.
- 150 million girls and 73 million boys under 18 experienced forced sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual violence during 2002.
- Between 100 and 140 million girls and women in the world have undergone some form of female genital mutilation/cutting. In sub-Saharan Africa, Egypt and the Sudan, 3 million girls and women are subjected to genital mutilation/cutting every year.
- In 2004, 218 million children were involved in child labour, of whom 126 million were in hazardous work.
- Estimates from 2000 suggest that 1.8 million children were forced into prostitution and pornography, and 1.2 million were victims of trafficking.
Causes for Child Abuse
You can read a more detailed article on the causes of child abuse here.
A rough glance at the main causes:
- Mental Illness,
- Stress,
- Drug Abuse,
- Alcoholism,
- Anger Management Issues,
- Immaturity.
Singapore's Children Society
This is a pdf file, so you gotta have an adobe reader.
"With this in mind, the Singapore Children’s Society planned forsystematic research into various aspects of child abuse and neglect, including:• Definition• Incidence and prevalence• Causes• Consequences• Prevention and outcome of prevention programmes• Treatment and outcome of treatment programmes• Child abuse & neglect in special populations, e.g., physically orintellectually disabled children, mentally ill perpetrators, etc."
Why?
The first and basic question that would be posed would be: why make this blog?
I made a status, directed to these people: You can change your DP to cartoon characters for all I care, but don't do that using 'helping abused kids' as a reason because that's f**ked up. It does NOTHING to help them, abuse STILL happens and it certainly doesn't spread the message nor enlighten anyone. Instead of sitting behind the computer, you could do a lot more if you get out and do actual things (if saving children from violence even matters to you).
And from there, a debate was risen between my debate coach and team mate and me.
After a much a much heated discussion, I agreed to what they were saying; it is better than nothing, at least the message is spread. For the case of the ignorant people, I'd ignore them, and instead of - as I quote my coach - "wasting righteous indignation on these people, use it for a more positive action," she told me to do something instead of being angry.
This started off due to a campaign in Facebook.
This was the message being passed around -
"Change your profile picture to a cartoon character from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same. Until Monday (6 Dec 2010), there should be no human faces on Facebook, but an invasion of memories. This is a campaign to stop abuse against children."
Friends of mine really started to change their profile pictures into classic old cartoon shows, and within the first 24 hours of the start of this campaign, it had been a viral success. A significant amount of my friends started to have Eeyore, Mickey Mouse, Popeye, Powerpuff Girls and Pokemon as their display picture. It seemed for that moment, yes, this campaign is a success.
Then, things started to piss me off. I'd see people asking "What's with the new picture?" and the nonchalant reply would be "Oh, this is to help with 'violence against children'!" when actually, these people don't really give a damn. All they care about is sharing what were their favourite childhood cartoon show. They don't really care about helping the abused children, only a handful would be genuine about that.
I made a status, directed to these people: You can change your DP to cartoon characters for all I care, but don't do that using 'helping abused kids' as a reason because that's f**ked up. It does NOTHING to help them, abuse STILL happens and it certainly doesn't spread the message nor enlighten anyone. Instead of sitting behind the computer, you could do a lot more if you get out and do actual things (if saving children from violence even matters to you).
And from there, a debate was risen between my debate coach and team mate and me.
After a much a much heated discussion, I agreed to what they were saying; it is better than nothing, at least the message is spread. For the case of the ignorant people, I'd ignore them, and instead of - as I quote my coach - "wasting righteous indignation on these people, use it for a more positive action," she told me to do something instead of being angry.
This is where this blog comes in.
People change their profile pictures into cartoons, and they stop at that. How many bothers to actually read up on this worldwide situation happening?
As I quote from this site,
What is the first step in helping to stop child abuse? What is a good follow up of this campaign?
The answer is this: read.
Hence, this blog will provide you with a list of sites you can read from to learn more about child abuse.
What's going to happen after reading them all?
I don't know either. That is up to you, on how you wish to continue helping. But I'm just doing my part here to provide you with the links.
Thank you for taking the time :)
People change their profile pictures into cartoons, and they stop at that. How many bothers to actually read up on this worldwide situation happening?
As I quote from this site,
Child abuse is defined as stoppage of child abandonment, neglect, rape, acts of lasciviousness, prostitution, pedophilia, pornography, cyber abuse, maltreatment, child labour, illegal recruitment, child trafficking and arm conflict.
What is the first step in helping to stop child abuse? What is a good follow up of this campaign?
The answer is this: read.
Hence, this blog will provide you with a list of sites you can read from to learn more about child abuse.
What's going to happen after reading them all?
I don't know either. That is up to you, on how you wish to continue helping. But I'm just doing my part here to provide you with the links.
Thank you for taking the time :)
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