AMMAN — A
national study on
violence against children revealed that about 16.2 percent of
Jordanian children are badly affected as a result of the absence of supervision
and nurturing by their parent, according to Al-Ghad News.
اضافة اعلان
The study, prepared by
the National Council for Family Affairs (
NCFA) in partnership with
UNICEF showed that “carelessness that results in injuries was the most common type of
neglect”. The study also showed that about 9.1 percent of children were offered
cigarettes or other smoking substances from adults, while about 8.3 percent of
Jordanian children feel that their parents do not care about them, and 8.2
percent feel that they are worthless.
The sample study showed
that 5.5 percent of parents and caregivers admitted that they failed to provide
health care for their children during illness, and 2.5 percent of caregivers
were unable to provide a safe place of residence for their children.
The study defined
neglect as “the failure to meet the child’s physical and psychological needs
and protect them from danger”. Neglect also includes the concept of physical
neglect, which means the failure to provide protection for the child from harm,
including weak supervision, and inability to provide the child with basic
needs, like food, shelter, clothes, and health care.
Neglect is also defined
at poor emotional support and lack of showing love to the child, neglecting the
psychological needs and mental health of the child, as well as academic neglect
where the family is not committed to the inclusion of their children in
education.
The study revealed that
about 27 percent of
children were subjected to some form of sexual violence,
but the vast majority of these cases of violence, 24 percent, were incidents of
“indecent speech”.
The results of the
study showed that male children were subjected to sexual violence at greater
rates than female children, by 31 percent among males and 23 percent among
females, while 75 percent of children were exposed to physical violence.
The results of the
study stressed the importance of supporting social protection policies,
economic empowerment of families at risk, conducting in-depth studies on
livelihoods and vulnerability assessments, in addition to the continuous
development of support programs for survivors, rehabilitation programs for
perpetrators of violence, and the development of follow-up and evaluation
mechanisms to ensure the quality of services.
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