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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves.


What is
Child Abuse?

To many, child abuse is narrowly defined as having only physical implications.
In reality, child abuse includes:
• Physical abuse, unlawful corporal punishment or injury.
• General and severe neglect.
• Sexual abuse, sexual assault, exploitation
• Willful harming or endangering a child, emotional maltreatment.
Child abuse may involve multiple categories in each family.
They include both (overt) acts and omissions.

Competent assessments and interventions must consider evaluating multiple categories of abuse.
The act of inflicting injury or the failure to act so that injury results, is the basis for making the decision to intervene. A parent or caretaker may begin by inflicting minor injuries, then may increasingly cause more serious harm over a period of time.

Therefore, detecting the initial small injuries and intervening with preventive action may save a child from future permanent injury or death.
Physical injuries, neglect and malnutrition are more readily detectable than the subtle and less visible injuries that result from emotional maltreatment or sexual abuse.
However, all categories of abuse endanger or impair a child’s physical and/or emotional health and development and demand attention.
Certain persons, known as mandated reporters, are required by law to report any known or suspected instance of child abuse.
Everyone else may report child abuse and neglect.

Indicators for suspected child abuse are presented in this publication to assist mandated reporters in meeting their responsibilities under the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act.
One of the most important indicators for suspecting child abuse is when a child tells someone that he or she has been abused.
When a child tells a particular person who is an individual required to report child abuse, the communication is not privileged.
That individual, by law, must report what the child has related to him or her.
An only exception is when the information is relayed during “penitential communication.

” A clergy member who acquires knowledge or reasonable suspicion of child abuse during penitential communication is not required to report abuse or neglect. Penitential communication is the communication, intended to be in confidence, including but not limited to, a sacramental confession, made to a clergy member who, in the course of the discipline
or practice of his or her church, denomination, or organization, is authorized or accustomed to hear those communications, and under the discipline, tenets, customs, or practices of his or her church, denomination, or organization has a duty to keep those communications secret.

In addition, and in the recent past, “any custodian of records of a clergy
member” were made mandated reporters and are now required to report child abuse and neglect. Mandated reporters who report suspected child abuse cases have immunity, both civilly and criminally, for making reports.

( Child Abuse Prevention Handbook )

ABOUT ME

CHANGE THE WORLD WITH CHILDREN





In all countries in the world, there are many children living in exceptionally difficult conditions and that such children need special consideration.

For those I’m very violently invited to encourage attention for them. Because my profession is the practical corporate law, so I’ve been concentrate to take measures for carry on the Indonesian Government programs, which has ratified in 1990 the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), through the Presidential Decree Number 36/1990 and the law on child protection has now been adopted as The Law Number 23 Year 2002.

Indonesia strives to live up to its obligation to fulfill children’s rights. This obligation is also shown in the international commitment agreed upon during the 27th UNGASS (United Nations General Assembly for the Special Session on Children ) meeting. The UNGASS produced the document “A World Fit For Children” which outlines basic standards on child welfare and protection.

Recognizing that the law enforcement remains one of the biggest challenges in Indonesia, so I’ve dedication my mission to assistance and supported the Indonesian government program to give a world fit of children. Socialize of the law on children protection (The Republic of Indonesia Law Number 23 Year 2002), will help raise awareness of the law and its content to not only the legal enforcers, but also to the national and international community at large, including children themselves.

In my mission to socialize the substance of the law on children protection (The Republic of Indonesia Law Number 23 Year 2002) to all the people in the nation, to the public, to the institutions working on child protection and on child rights,and raise their awarennes and participation in providing the best for Indonesian children, those all who have been contribute and got a hard supported to develop my mission are my husband and my children.
My husband, he is the UNICEF staff member in Indonesia, he give me much supported and some positive input about UNICEF mission.

In term of this, I’ve optimalised continuing hard work and commitment to concerned with children’s rights, to guarantee and protect the children, so that they can live, grow, develop and participate optimally in accordance with human dignity standards and values, and be protected from violence and discrimination.

Particular thanks to my husband, as UNICEF staff member, in addition I would like to express gratitude to him, without whom my mission could well have proved impossible. By mean to know according about UNICEF, and all the UNICEF mission there are has been wonderful and rewarding experience. I love the organization, I love the mission.
My children have greatly appreciated the UNICEF mission too, their attention for the opinions of their father occupation and my mission, and their concrete involvement to following their parents activities will give them an increased sense of responsibility and eradication of all forms of discrimination and violence from Indonesia. They are helped me to completing my mission survey, which was full of valuable comments. They will bring me into close aligment with what I want to know to undertake in its behalf studies on specific issues relating to the rights of the children.

As the UNICEF family. I’m with my sons have a personality commitment to supported all of UNICEF mission and programs. Because I know, family, as the fundamental group of society and the natural environtment for the growth and well being off all its members and particularly children, should be afforded the necessary protection and assistance so that it can fully assume its responsibilities within the community. And the children, for the full and harmonious development on his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding.

For those, I will be concentrated my mission to give a world fit for children, for supported my husband as UNICEF staff member. So we can work together to give a better world for children. A brighter future for all of our children can only be achieved if we all work hand in hand, nationally and internationally, and at all levels of society.

I dedicated my life for socialization of the law on child protection in my nation, Indonesia.


- Dee -

WE ARE THE CHILDREN





Welcome to my Blogspot, thanks for visiting my Blogspot.
I really hope that you will find it interesting and beneficial. Through this Blogspot, I would like to share my dedication to the children, because I believe that everything for goodness on live changing to a better is not impossible to make reality.
In my Blogspot, I would also like to bring you closer to some issues that I have always been concerned with. There will be a segment that discusses about the children.
I will also invite visitors to learn more about how to save the children. I will be the socialization of the child protection law to the public, and to the institutions working on child protection and on child rights, also to all the people in the world.
I will be raised awareness a participation in providing the best for every child.

Mass media frequently reports disturbing news on victims of violence, and discrimination of children, exploitation of children, prostitution of children, trafficking of children, and many more children abuse, was now reached alarming proportions. Although both national and international legal instruments call for the protection of children’s rigths, but nevertheless, the rights of children are abused and denied all the time and all the world.
This is an extremely worry some situation bearing in mind that the children of the nation hold the future of the country in their hands.
It must be remembered that the children victims of violence, discrimination and exploitation, bear a physical, mental and social trauma, and have scars inflicted upon them for the rest of their lives.

The victims of violence, and discrimination of children, exploitation of children, prostitution of children, trafficking of children, and many more children abuse, constitutes nothing less than crime againts humanity and a gross violation of human rihgts, there for must be stamped out at all levels.
So, to change the world to give the children a brighter future for all of our children can only be achieved if we all work hand in hand, nationaly and internationaly, and at all levels of society.

Children is important for the future, and those I would also like to encourage visitors to share their ideas and learn from some materials I have collected to share information regarding this important issue. Being a children, I will dedicate this Blogspot for encouraging the young generation to actively participate in the development of our nation as history has shown how the young generation has always been the pioneer for change.
So, I hope everyone will find this visit to my Blogspot an enriching experience. Please feel free to access all the materials and share your ideas in the discussion forums.
I believe that sharing ideas is the best way to improve ourselves.
I am looking forward to your constructive suggestions.


- dee –
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