Children who must stay home due to the shutdown, are experiencing more violence and abuse, says the Danish Youth Red Cross.
the Red Cross Youth have been a rising number of inquiries from children who are experiencing violence and abuse in the home, since the government a month’s time ago closed large parts of the country down and asked people to stay more at home.
It informs the Youth Red Cross in a press release.
– Where violence and abuse in the home before not stuffed very much in the inquiries we got from the children and young people, it is now the theme of every fourth letter, we get, say, Amalie Georg Smistrup, which is næstforperson in the Red Cross Youth.
Usually, inquiries about violence and abuse in the six to seven percent of the things that children and young people will talk with Red Cross Youth on.
In the time, where the danes have been encouraged to keep themselves more at home, have this type of inquiries accounted for approximately 20 percent.
It is a trend, which is also Marianne Rasmussen, who is head of Børnetelefonen with Children, have got an eye on.
– There are quite a few children, is calling on the corona and the complexity they are experiencing, when they already are vulnerable. It can be children who are exposed to physical abuse or psychological pressure, she says.
Vulnerable children, who before sought away from home, now have a harder time to get away from home, in the same way it sounds.
In virtue of the children spend more time in the home, they are also more vulnerable, if they have violent parents, or parents who abuse them.
– We demand, that from the political side will be allocated krisecenterpladser to the children and young people who need to get away from the violence, they are isolated with at home, says Amalie Georg Smistrup.
At the august open krisecenteret Joannahuset, which is the first shelter for children and young people.
– It will be exciting to see if it becomes a success, and if we can get helped some children, as we don’t get helped today, says social – and interior minister, Astrid Krag (S).
Until Joannacentret open, whereas Astrid Krag to the obligation to not put out of force because of the situation with coronavirus.
– It is so important to say very clearly to all who might be concerned about a child whether it is inside by the neighbor, you can hear more commotion and more conflicts than there used to be, or that the number of empty bottles in the backyard grow, that one must turn to the municipality, she says.
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