Child Abuse India 2007

April 10, 2007

- Two out of every three children face some form of physical abuse

- Fifty per cent of abusers are known to the child or in some position of trust/responsibility

- Over seventy per cent of abused children remain silent about the abuse

- Two out of every three children face corporal abuse at school

- Every second child faces some form of emotional abuse

- Almost half of the girls wish they were boys

These are some of the deeply disturbing findings of this study of over 12000 children across 13 states.

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  1. this is crazy. it might be worth seeing the trend of these statistics over time. i think we all feel good about our society and how far we have come. but have we? I just posted this last month. A video by a high school student called Kiri Davis.
    http://gentopix.blogspot.com/2007/03/girl-like-me.html

    Comment by bharath — April 11, 2007 @ 2:23 am

  2. I wrote a long comment. your blog gobbled it silently :) I am just posting the link now about a video made by a high school student.

    http://gentopix.blogspot.com/2007/03/girl-like-me.html

    basically some things never change.

    Comment by bharath — April 11, 2007 @ 2:26 am

  3. Ah, I see that my comments did appear. It didn’t give any indication if there was an approval process.

    Comment by bharath — April 11, 2007 @ 4:01 pm

  4. the full report is available here.
    www.karmayog.org/redirect/strred.asp?docId=5271

    Comment by sriram — April 13, 2007 @ 4:19 am

  5. Read the complete report here: Study on Child Abuse: India 2007.

    Emotional abuse includes nagging children to behave properly.

    Essentially, the Western NGO idiots who penned this report want the same kind of dysfunctional youth in India that we in the West are plagued with due to the policy of sparing the rod and spoiling the children!

    Comment by Salauddeen — April 19, 2007 @ 9:16 am

  6. Bharath: comments are moderated, and I often don’t get around to logging in and clearing the comments queue more than once a day, sometimes less frequently. Sorry for the confusion!

    Sriram: thanks.

    Salauddeen: I’m not sure what you mean. Abuse of any kind is wrong. Period. And please avoid abusive words in your comments too.

    Comment by Uma — April 19, 2007 @ 4:26 pm

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