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200,000 babies at risk of abuse
“Nearly 200,000 babies in Britain are at high risk of suffering abuse because they are born into families with problems of domestic violence, mental health or addiction, new research suggests.
The NSPCC said under-ones were eight times more likely to be killed than any other age group in childhood.
Launching a new campaign to support the most vulnerable babies, the charity released the first estimates of how many infants are living in high-risk family situations.
Across the UK, 144,000 children under one live with a parent who has mental health problems, 109,000 have a parent with drug or alcohol problems, and 39,000 are in a home affected by domestic violence. Some fall into more than one category.
Two-thirds of official inquiries into cases where babies are killed or seriously injured involve one or more of these factors.
There has been heightened concern about how agencies care for vulnerable young children since the death of 17-month-old Baby P - now named as Peter Connelly - while on the at-risk register in August 2007.”
And rightly so. This article is terrifying to me because it could indicate 200,000+ more Baby P’s across the UK alone, right now suffering at the hands of their parents. They could be visited by police, doctors, social workers..and what’s done?Absolutely nothing
If you’re not familiar with Baby P’s case which took place here in the UK only a few years back, research and see for yourself how awful it is. You’d think with all these strict child protection legislations passed after Victoria Climbe’s murder, (which took place not far at all from Baby P’s location) that they’d be more careful but apparently that’s not so.
A little boy cleans up the blood and remains of his parents slaughterhouse
Homeless child with puppy, Arizona (John Walker)
Jainal (11) in the factory where he works making silver cooking pots. He earns 700 taka (10 USD) a month.Photo by G.M.B. Akash. Dhaka, Bangladesh (2008)
Ugh child you are so precious !!
Someone wrote
“I wish little kids didn’t have to grow up. I see my little brothers laughing and playing and I cant imagine them being stressed out, miserable adults. I can’t see them doing drugs or drinking to get away from the pain.
It kills me to know that one day they’ll figure out how horrible the world can be.
I wish innocence lasted forever”
Word for word I can understand and relate to this so well. Working with kids, I often wonder where does it all go wrong?I often wish sometimes we could be children forever or have that child like innocence with us always. Kids are so pure
