The level of child abuse in our country saddens me deeply an I applaud the comments made by various politicians that something must be done. But why hasn't something already been done?
This is not a new problem. There must be hundreds of reports around the nation sitting on shelves that paint a picture of the terrible tragedies that our children are subjected to daily.
Why is it that until the media turns a problem into an issue we hear nothing from our elected politicians? Why does it take repeated news reports and a public outcry on talk back radio to get our governments moving?
Children will be physically, emotionally and mentally abused in homes across Australia tonight and every minute that is wasted while politicians wait for media analyses on this week's major news items is a minute where these children will be harmed.
Please, elected representatives, do something now.
1 comment:
Child abuse is one of those awful things to which there is no easy answer. The reality is the better educated, the more level the wealth is within a country and the more comprehensive the overall access to health and social services, the better off the childern are. A bit like the next posts' Brumby comment, real ideas can be hard to come by. As much as you might hate it, a more humanist, socialist environment than we have at the moment in Australia WILL lower rates of child abuse. The devil is in the detail of organising such a system without losing votes for depriving the richer of their riches.
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