Salaam to all the Muslims,
Sickening. I think the underlying cause for this is that because majority of Indians are sexually molested in their childhood, they're mentally disturbed for rest of their lives., thus such heneious behaviour.
What's more disturbing is that how so many Indians here refuse to condemn this Culture of Rapes in India.
Salaam to all the Muslims
Indian parents are silent witnesses of child abuse
Saturday, April 14, 2007
NEW DELHI: Parents are often silent witnesses to abuse of their children due to conservative views about sex in India, a government official said on Friday.
A study earlier this week revealed that
two-thirds of children in India are physically abused while more than half have faced some form of sexual abuse.
The study - which questioned almost 12,500 children and parents across 13 of India’s 29 states - found that half the cases of sexual abuse were committed by persons known to the child or in a position of trust and responsibility.
“I think the study is like heaving a sigh of relief because it’s something that parents knew but they wouldn’t voice as the culture doesn’t permit this,” Renuka Chowdhury, India’s minister for women and child development, told Reuters in an interview.
“A lot of them have been silent witnesses to a lot of things. It’s more like drawing the curtain aside.”
She said parents often did not know how to confront a family member who was sexually abusing their child.
“Parents are also in denial as they don’t know how to remove the uncle, for example, as perhaps he’s contributing to the family coffers or he has a dominant role in the family.” Chowdhury said sex was still a taboo subject in many family homes. “I don’t understand why we shouldn’t talk about sex when we have a one billion population ... obviously everyone is occupied with it. That’s just hypocrisy,” she said.
Chowdhury criticised the decision by three Indian states, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, to ban sex education. “Sex education does not mean you are encouraging sex which is how it’s interpreted,” she said. “Sex education is an insurance for your child. It will protect your child.
“It’s creating awareness of a child of the physical transitions that happen when they enter their reproductive years and so they will also know how not to be exploited or misguided by some pervert standing outside their school.” reuters
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