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Children are the most vulnerable in any society

Apr 15, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Hindu Dharmic Sabha should be commended for the very proactive approach they are taking in helping our country’s children who are being abused.
Child abuse, domestic violence and alcoholism have for too many years become a most disturbing fabric of our Guyanese homes, and it is time that these societal scourges are given more attention and more effort placed on helping the afflicted.
Children are the most vulnerable in any society and left alone with parents and other care-givers to be maltreated and physically violated is a sad state of affairs for our society.
So again I commend the Dharmic Sabha for their intervention, and it is also heartening to read that the centre will house children from all spectrum of our very diverse Guyanese society.
Guyana, one should note, has a most pressing and severe case of child abuse and child abandonment, and one which is also different in some respects to that of other countries.
We need to develop other strategies of dealing with the intricacies of child abuse that are peculiar to Guyana; finding alternative living arrangements for the victims is one such form of much needed assistance, but this is only an initial step.
We need to look at effecting societal and cultural changes in this regard, as too many Guyanese who consider themselves of the old school see the rising awareness of child abuse as negative as they are in some cases, firmly entrenched in the old adage of not “sparing the rod, spoiling the child”. But then this in too many cases is taken to severe extremes.
Delana Isles

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