COMMENT | Child abuse is a societal problem but is often treated at the individual or family level.
| Children are beaten, abused and killed on a daily basis in Malaysia. The headlines change so rapidly that the protection of children is often pushed back until the next tragedy impacting a child.The Langkawi tragedy - the death of- will not be captured like the legend of Mahsuri.
“Children’s issues are development issues. Somehow, children seem to come last in the ministry, although we are very focused on children’s issues.”Children come last in the ministry because they are not voters. Responses to child maltreatment have tended to be crisis-driven, resulting in only those cases that pose serious risks being followed up on. While most government programmes have the necessary physical facilities, shelter homes are overcrowded. In contrast to government-run activities, which are well funded, the NGO programmes are dependent on philanthropy or charity.
In the final analysis, child abuse is a societal problem but is often treated at the individual or family level. As pointed out by the author L Armstrong, when we reformulate the issue of child abuse in terms of mental health problems, the language “tends to paralyse our critical skills and deflect attention from compelling social problems”.
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