Child Protection & Child Rights

According to UNICEF, child abuse can be in a form of damage in physical and mental, failure to use reasonable care, oppression and child molestation. Child abuse may happen in homes, schools, residential institutions, streets, companies, prisons and in locations of confinement. There is so much harm in child abuse that can lead to a negative effect in the growth of the child, damaging their mind, body and well-being. In worst case scenario, child abuse can make a child die.

In India, the case of child abuse is a secret circumstance especially if the abuse takes place in homes involving the family members. The center about abuse has normally been in the state of being available to the public as a whole like child labor, prostitution, marriage, etc. The abuse that happens in school and government institutions or the intra-family abuse is often taken for granted. This may be because of the form of the family relations in India and the obligations of children have in this form. In India, the young individuals are very dependent on their children; they still remain to conform to the authority and will of their parents although they decided to separate from their parents. This belief that family members are the sole custodian of the child has confirmed to have disadvantages on child protection laws. Quantity of the child abuse cases in India that takes place in home are difficult to achieve since most these cases are unreported. Abuses related to social relations that are a result of poverty are identified in different forms by the law in India. However, India doesn’t have a legal system that safeguards the child from abuse that takes place in the home. According to studies, intra-family child abuse in the U.S. has a connection to minor crimes, teenage pregnancy and other emotional disorder.

L.Singh