Citation

Sidebotham P. Child Abuse Rev. 2016; 25(6): 405-409.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/car.2462

PMID

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Abstract

Imagine a world where each child has the right to live in a happy family that is full of hope, where children can play in clean playgrounds, where no child is beaten or hit with a piece of wood, belt or hanger, or is cursed, pinched, slapped, or made to kneel on mung beans. That was the dream of a non-violent and non-discriminatory family and community expressed by a group of street youth in Manila (Wartenweiler and Mansukhani, 2016, online Supporting Information). Such a dream is something that we strive for in our work to combat child maltreatment worldwide. It is not something that will be easily achieved, but we need to do all that we can to promote it through education, family support and early intervention, services for abused children, legislation and research.

Language: en