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Child Destruction

Speak up against Child Abuse-

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Under no circumstances is a parent allowed to physically tackle his/her offspring. The ward may call them a bucket in the butt BUT the parent cannot, I repeat canNOT physically touch the child.

The same holds true for teachers as well!

That ONE slap can turn a child with potential into a drug addict.

 

Studies report that 1,460 children were KILLED by child abuse/neglect in 2005 in the United States alone. Imagine 1460 killed. I'll repeat this statistic again- 1460 children killed due to child abuse/neglect.


Scary? Let's see more!!

INTERNATIONAL STATS-

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


Read them again please.


Child abuse is Child destruction!

Stop it!  



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  • JM Kenyon silver member
    January 16
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    I'm late to comment but I just have to say this...

    I've seen all the "hands off", "all-positive reinforcement" parenting I can take.

    lol

    s and best wishes always... ~Genie~

  • Yvette Champ gold member
    November 4, 2007
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    Child abuse is childhood destruction,I believe that emotional and verbal abuse are also damaging to the psyche and development of the child as indeed is physical abuse.To smack a childs hand or leg when all else has been tried is one thing,the terrible brute force beatings,sometimes with weapons as well as fists,is another. Our children do need protecting and agencies that are overseen by another body to oversee their policies.Too often we read of cases where children are not removed despite attention being drawn and then these children are found dead like Heidi Koseida in the UK,the parents locked the 2 year old in a junk room next to the kitchen and left her to starve to death.The post mortem showed old bruises and the contents of her stomach were rubber where she had tried to chew an old tyre near her and the soluble granuals of her nappy that she had eaten part of,the social services had called but not seen the child.Jasmine Beckford was found so horribly injured in so many ways that I cannot print them,she was just three,her nursery had informed the services and again she slipped through the net,her post mortem revealed there wasn't a bone in her body that had never been broken.I could cite more names and tragedies,but it won't bring them back.I would like to see parenting classes introduced in schools as compulsory.Much focus is placed on sex education but none on parenting and some so not have the skills because they have not been parented properly.It needs a three pronged approach.Educate via parenting classes.Implement a governing body for the care services and tighten up the laws so that when these adults are prosecuted for wilful destruction of children they get life and it means life,not half a sentence served for obeying prison rules.I am also in favour of compulsory sterilization of males and females that abuse children.Of course it will never happen,everyone shouts about human rights and ethics and yet was ethical or humane about allowing an abuser to reproduce another child and replicate their behaviour? This is a topic that many don't like to talk about or think about and yet if we don't propose positive changes to protect children just how are the children going to be protected?


  • Foxydaze14
    July 12, 2007
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    Child abuse is a very sad thing. It's not just stop at physically abuse, mental abuse hurts too. My nephew and niece are only 4 and 2 and have been (suspected to be) raped and their parents neglected them. they were found a few blocks away from their home, my niece had on only a dirty diaper. They got taken away by DHS and are now living with us. My paretns may end up adopting them. I keep thinking about how painful it will be when they turn 5 and they ask, "Where's my mommy and daddy, why are they not here, why did they do that to us?" And of course memories will never go away. I'm sure even at age 2 my niece will still remember all the pain and hurtful things that went on.


  • DK akaLunaticSerene gold member
    July 10, 2007
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    Caution! Caution! Beware the agencies charged with Child Protection. Approximately 100,000 children are adopted out annually as a result of CPS intervention. Of those in only 10% was there evidence substantial enough to charge the parents with a crime. 90% are based on mere allegations. This is due to the fact that for every adoption completed, state child protective agencies recieve $8000 in federal subsidies. No federal subsidies are offered to preserve families. Ripping apart loving families, and severing the crucial parent-child bond, is a money-generating industry. This often results in an emotionally crippling condition called "seperation anxiety" These children become desensitized to human connection, and develope an inability to feel compassion. 76% of all serial killers are adoptees. 90,000 a year permanently stolen from loving families. 43% of child mortality due to abuse or neglect occurs in foster care. So of those 1460 killed, there would only have been 832, if not for undue intervention on the part of child protective agencies. I strongly advise those who have concern for our children to look to where the greater harm is being done.


    • JohnnyD gold member
      July 12, 2007
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      oh, for absolute certain, CPS in most states is quilty of serial family destruction of around 80,000 plus families a year, in a real sense it is the new child slavery market for state governments.

  • goalsv
    July 10, 2007
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    I too am one that thinks there are times that physical reminder can be effective and needed. As a child I got some spankings, they were justified and effective. I did not become a drug addict, an alcoholic or an abuser. I learned lessons, and have turned out pretty decent. Abuse of anyform, physical, mental, or sexual is wrong and terrible, but you can not put correction with abuse, they are seaperate things!


    • Laughing Buddh
      July 14, 2007
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      @goalsv

      of course you dont find anything wrong with 'correction'......let me see,ure from the US,right?means ure rich and well-off................what punishment did you receive as a child.........spanking?hahahahahaha..........come to india,man,then youll know what this person is talking about.........now i dont support physical punishment at all,and i'd like to tell you how things are in our third-world countries.....children get slaps as punishment.............they get slapped on their faces....thats something much,much more destructive than spanking....and,oh,slaps are for regular kids.......if ure unlucky,you could even be beaten with a belt etc......the govt just doesnt care...........
      and,btw,the reason you never found anything wrong with being punished?well,im sorry to say....your conscience isnt in its right place...maybe it never was.....or maybe those spanks/slaps etc were enough to benumb it!!


  • Fug-azi
    July 10, 2007
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    First of all you should know that there is a distinction between abuse and punishment .. abuse is the SUSTAINED use of force, be it physical or mental.
    Punishment is the OCCASIONAL use of force to underline the importance of rules and limits.

    The first is totally wrong, the second is, in my opinion, right/

    Your opinion is great ... but while abuse is wrong, there are times when a physical reminder that there are limits and rules is necessary.

    Your statistics are a very powerful tool, but I wonder what statistics would there be for the children who have had no parental control turning into spoilt adults with no real distinction between right and wrong.
    It is a very, very fine line between correction and abuse .. believe me I know I have two sons who I think have turned out pretty good and yes I will admit to having smacked them on more than one occasion throughout their lifes, the result being they understand that there are limits and there are rules.

    You won't agree with me, and thats ok, I'm just saying what I think many other parents will agree with ...

    Physical punishment should never be used as the norm, but as the ultimate, final detterent.


    • Raazi
      July 10, 2007
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      Agreed. That is correction, and at times, is mandatory. But thrashing the living daylights out of a kid who can't even defend his or her own self? Surely, nothing can justify that. That is what this fight is against.

      • Laughing Buddh
        July 14, 2007
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        i dont know udit......i thought u were all out against physical punishment...........but now youre saying correction is justified??
        now,how can anyone justify hurting their own children only because they were the ones responsible for their birth?see,we humans are sick........we dont beat up our children,or someone else's,for that matter, to correct their behaviour,we do it to establish authority....to show them whos the boss!
        i feel that hurting children is one of the worst acts of violence anyone can commit..........these people above you might not find anything wrong with it,as they've seldom encountered the problem themselves..but c'mon,you and i know how acute the problem is.......we know what long-term effects it can create!

        • Raazi
          July 14, 2007
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          There is a difference between correction and abuse. Correction may include shouting, punishment, and others...but NOT physical abuse.

      • Fug-azi
        July 10, 2007
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        Phew .. ok, thank God you set that straight, I was shaking with the thought of what your reply might be.

        and no sustained physical assault is NEVER, NEVER accetable, no matter what the circumstances.

        Respect


  • Tangled Angle
    July 10, 2007
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    So right on. And it's sad.

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