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Time to end silence on child abuse : Comments
By Jeremy Sammut, published 18/9/2009Rising numbers of children in Australia are being left in situations which expose them to cumulative harm, neglect and severe abuse.
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What proportion of time spent looking after children in a one-parent context is provided by mothers, rather than fathers ? 80 % ? 90%? So is '68 per cent of cases of emotional and psychological abuse [and] ... about 53 per cent of physical abuse and more than 94 per cent of neglect cases' disproportionate ?
Are you suggesting that fathers (or some other configuration of carers) are responsible for the other 32 % 'of cases of emotional and psychological abuse' and 47 % of physical abuse ? Do single fathers have 47 % or 32 % of the care of such children, or a lot less ?
Joe