Australia fails on child rights, says UN

[AnimalMother]

You said "abused", without further specification. If you meant something more specific, you should have said so.

If you want to be understood, write clearly.

[mellie]

The UN needs to but out of our domestic politics, particularly in light of the UN's own 'legitimised' blood-letting exercises (involving children) they are responsible for having executed globally themselves for decades.
They have far too much to say about everything it seems.


People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, that or give other nations advice on how not to do exactly what they are responsible for having executed/neglected/disadvantaged/abandoned themselves.

Children!

UN =- Hypocrites.

[Neferti]

You said "abused", without further specification. If you meant something more specific, you should have said so.

If you want to be understood, write clearly.

You are, apparently, All Powerful, so you should be able to read my mind ... as I can, supposedly, read yours. You like nit-picking, huh?

[Black Orchid]

Sadly this is the case. Serious emotional neglect from mothers is high on the list together with physical abuse from stepfathers/fathers. Mothers can turn a blind eye to abuse - yet instinctively women are supposed to be the nurturers.

I find this a worse kind of abuse. It's not natural maternal instinct, just self serving cowardice

Laws for children's rights should be out there in black and white so we don't have to hesitate in reporting any parent for abusing their child.

I see it as a moral issue rather than a legal one. A law won't change the apathetic and people in general tend to report more petty things and ignore the more major issues, because they don't want to get involved. Perhaps some don't even see anything wrong with it

We are now forced to live amongst a growing number of people who have scant regard for children in their own countries where children are sold for sex, worked as slaves and shoved on boats alone with 200 unknown males. Australia isn't what it used to be and never will be again