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Child abuse is a blight on us all : Comments
By Rob Moodie, published 9/7/2008We need greater public awareness about the long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect.
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We should also be looking for some of quick wins - where it's easily identified that kids of school age are not being appropriately fed or clothed perhaps meals at school and a laundry service via the school environment could reduce some of those issues. We would have to try and reduce the risks of kids involved being further stigmatised but I suspect most where thats an issue already stick out to their peers.
We need to ensure that good information on effective parenting strategies is readily available to parents who may not otherwise have access to that stuff. That means being creative in overcoming lack of literacy skills for some. I'm not sure how we readily overcome dogma, some around OLO just can't conceive of raising kids without the right to bash them but part of that will be ensuring that other strategies are well publicised. That if they do insist on the right to bash a kid it becomes plan "c" or "d" rather than plan "a".
R0bert