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Posted: 16 years ago
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Originally posted by: sonur15

Agree realitybites ..........

u know this happen in lower class they left their children alone in houses( jhuggis) and went for their work of wages and their childern become the easy target .Police sometime dont even register a their case ( rape /kidney/child trafficking).Nithari was the perfect xample of this all the .All the children of maids and workers ( bangladeshi) became the victim ...feel so sorry for the just because they r poor they become target.....politicians and police both r responsible for this situation.

Thanks for agreeing😳. The poorer secn of society leaves their children unattended and fend for themselves. Most of the time the police force dont register the basic FIR since that makes them accountable to a certain act. They blame the parents or view it casually. Me too feel so sad for these less privileged children😭😭😭. If the criminals were not enought the police too commit atrocities on the tender children😡😡
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Posted: 16 years ago
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Originally posted by: angie.4u

Its a hard fact of our country that accounts for some 2.4 percent of the world's landmass but is home to about 16 percent of the global population . We cant just blame the politicians & policemen for these problems. I feel that the main reason is the ever bludgeoning population of india together with its accompanying problems like lack of education, poverty , superstitions. Its a vicious cycle - more population leading to poverty, lack of adequate resources & facility that fail t keep pace with the rapid growth .- leads to lack of proper education & women empowerment- which again lead to uncontrolled birth rates in the country. A family consisting of 6-10 children is not rare amongst the economically & educationally weaker section of society. No amt of measures taken up by the govt alone is going to meet their needs. We as a society have to come forward & contribute in whatevr way we can in terms of money, time, education.
Agreed apart from politicians the society needs to share the blame too. Still since the polity is expected to give a direction or formulate measures for safeguarding the child rights, how many have we seen since Independence? Schools lack basic facilities like classroom, drinking water, toilets and imp adequate no of teachers.

The each one teach one campaign started a few months back by a leading news paper in the country is a good eg of social responsibilty . Its heartening to C ppl turn up so enthusiastically for it. On the other hand we do hav ppl saying why shud we bother to share the burden. Some feel its not their fault that these ppl R poor or deprived & so grudge their hard earned tax payers money . Both sets have their points of view- so what do U feel shud B the solution ?
The campaign was started with so much buzz and hoopla but what is the status now? Is anyone evaluating that? Does the society feel conscientiously about their responsibility towards children? Yes there are some selfish 😒people who were fortunate to have a good childhood but that doesnt mean they can shrug off the unfortunate ones just becoz its not binding on them. A civil society functions as a Whole and not as independent units. What if they were to lose everything tom then what right does it give them to seek Govt grant or aids?
Its condemnable that despite Nithari happening, we still havent woken up? What will awaken us?🤔

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Posted: 16 years ago
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ok lets look at this other way round..even before we had the glory we had this issue...now that we have glory... we can expect some change will come around,.. but it will be slow...and remember with the diversity we have we are playing the n-legged race,poilitical disinterest and not themost important thing.. if we look at jkids... we will not look at female and their plight..if we look at them then there is minorities, the farmers.. etc.. so let us bask in this glory while we can,....... we frankly cant solve all the problems everybody thinks is important... so just shelve it for now....
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Posted: 16 years ago
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^ Yes we its wonderful that we have grown stronger economically and a power to reckon with. But shdnt we address the child rights issues too instead of sleeping over them? Shelving? thats what has been done since 60 yrs of Independence! How long and why? When I say children I include male kids also. Paedophilia is becoming rampant in Goa and Mumbai. Today's unfortunate news 15 children missing from shelter home!!and yes they are boys.
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Posted: 16 years ago
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Originally posted by: realitybites

^ Yes we its wonderful that we have grown stronger economically and a power to reckon with. But shdnt we address the child rights issues too instead of sleeping over them? Shelving? thats what has been done since 60 yrs of Independence! How long and why? When I say children I include male kids also. Paedophilia is becoming rampant in Goa and Mumbai. Today's unfortunate news 15 children missing from shelter home!!and yes they are boys.

did this economic growth create this problem no!..we are inheriting these problems frim the western world... how many pedofiles could you count in the 50's...notmany howmany do you think there are now...soits nothing to do with economic growth.. we need to go back to our values and fundamentals... money cant solve many of these issues...
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Posted: 16 years ago
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Originally posted by: qwertyesque

did this economic growth create this problem no!..we are inheriting these problems frim the western world... how many pedofiles could you count in the 50's...notmany howmany do you think there are now...soits nothing to do with economic growth.. we need to go back to our values and fundamentals... money cant solve many of these issues...

May be in some way, like exploiting children for cheap labour. Isit necessary that unless ecomony causes something it cannot address it? Dont we spend so much on infrastructure, defence, research,subsidies, free medical treatment, free electricity? But that apart its not wrong to appreciate/enjoy/flaunt economic bloom but just like other issues are addressed why not children? Arent they the future of a country? Do other nations not care for their children? If you have read the Nithari killings you wld agree the issue is glaring and waiting to explode, one can ignore it but wld it cease to exist? Today its other person's child tom it may be your child or some friends/relatives child. If you talk abt data then there is always a case for less prevalence and less reporting. My point is not only abt paedophilia but also other issues too like organ trade, child labour, education, child abuse, female foeticide and more.
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Posted: 16 years ago
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Are we not trying to adress a whole lot of issues like paedophilia, organ trade, child labour, education, child abuse , female foeticide in one thread? 😲 Each one merits a debate as individual topic 😕
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Posted: 16 years ago
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Originally posted by: angie.4u

Are we not trying to adress a whole lot of issues like paedophilia, organ trade, child labour, education, child abuse , female foeticide in one thread? 😲 Each one merits a debate as individual topic 😕

The issues are all parts of child rights, the point is that now that we have the money and resources to resolve these glaring probs still why the Govt isnt initiating them? Earlier it was always budgetary allocations more imp for defence, infrastructure, railways etc but now that we can afford to focus on this, still why despite being richer we arent acting on it?
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Posted: 16 years ago
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There R laws against these sort of child abuse. there R a whole lot of complex deep rooted social issues involved. Only having better economic situation today is not enuf to resolve it.
To tackle just one of them- Cause of Child labour includes poor / lazy/ alcoholic/ broken home/ ambitious parents (eg the child actors today)
If U consider banning it - it will lead to lot of problems. At times these children happen to B the only source of income 4 the family. So to stop it we will have to 1st ensure that the family earns enuf without resorting to child labour.
Now how to do that, & how much is enuf is again debatable.
will cum to other forms of child abuse later

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