Any act of violation of the right of the child. It can be physical by spanking, caning, cutting, chaining, belting, and handcuffing, hurting, wounding, injuring or emotional abuse such as bullying, abusing, shouting down, insulting or sexual abuse such as raping arousing, sensitising, motivating or sexually stimulating expressions. Other times it can be neglect as in not taking good care of the child hawking, child labour, child marriage, roaming about, and lack of provision of good health care, tattered wares, and unkempt appearances, not getting good education or not going to school.
He is yours but you don’t have to kill him because he is yours. He has a right to survival established under law.
No, but beating is not the right form of discipline. Beating does not necessarily change a child from getting spoilt. Beating could make him/her worse.
We cannot repeat the cycle of abuse
The rod the bible is talking is about direction. The children should be guided, corrected but not
We are Africans but African Union came together because of the danger the African Child is exposed to.
Spanking, caning, abuses etc. are not discipline and it cannot be part of our culture. We should not hide under the canopy of discipline to abuse them. Correction should be done with love.
You can correct and discipline them with love e.g. benching, stopping them from watching their favourite programme etc. creating naughty corners etc.
The whites don’t beat their children but they still invent so many things that we use. Beating kills the children’s initiatives and expression of their giftings, they become withdrawn and afraid to do things.
Once the girl is under 18, sex cannot be consensual.
She must not be under 18
The law does not allow any form of torture and there is no evidence that torturing delivers the witch.
The parents or guardians should not be out of control in handling a difficult child because you can’t use a rabid dog to fight a mad dog.
If you are caught you will be jailed under child rights law.
It is a juvenile court where matters concerning children are handled and judged. A court established under child rights law and is handled by the magistrate assisted by court assessors.
Yes
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You can report anonymously and if your intention is to save a life, it does not matter how anyone feels.
It is for yeye people who cannot control their yeye anger against children.
Anything like bullying, shouting, molesting, terrorising are all forms of abuse and you can be arrested for it.
No, but children can also be reported when they go out of control and the family court can help discipline the child.
It is the total withdrawal of the child from abusive parent and the children legally would be given out to parent who can take care of them.
It is the best interest of the child in all matters.
- Sex education
- Telling them the danger and consequences of exposing their body –
- Examine your child all the time –
- Don’t trust your child in the hands of anyone –
- Let them know their private parts that no one should touch from the public parts –
- Tell them who can predate them and the baits of the predators’ e.g. sweet, biscuits, chewing gum, telephone set etc.
- Train them to keep their body from opposite sex.