is “International Day for Street Children”. Street children are defined as those who spend the majority of their time on the streets, sometimes begging, sometimes working, sometimes smoking pot or sniffing glue, sometimes in petty crime. The cause is often loss of one, or both, parents, or just extreme poverty, in countries with no welfare system.
Please make this day known and publicize the many good schemes that help such children to have a normal youth.
@ Lord Hylton:
Your line of a ‘normal youth’ is an oxymoron. As I read recently, the State, is gong to bring into this country yet another US legality, termed as the ‘Cinderella Bill’. Somehow the plan is to expand the already anti neglect and abuse laws we have presently to include emotional abuse. A big discussion needed on that particular set of wording.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26814427
This strikes me as very odd indeed. For, our government has for years, no matter its colour, condoned the most dreadful of all childhood emotional abuse, abandonment. Children in this so called rich country, are forced into separation from their parents at an ever earlier age to enable the ‘poor’ to work 12 hours a day, which has now reached a level of fanaticism unseen since the dark ages. With this new push for mothers to leave their offspring virtually from birth in nurseries that have no idea of the loving nurture needed by all children to thrive healthily.
I’m wondering how the State will cope with being sued for emotional abuse by each and every child who suffer from such a horrendous policy of enforced abandonment? Governments are fully aware of the emotional needs babies and children have for affection from their immediate nuclear family and mostly from their mothers, yet, they continue to press for the bond to be broken as soon as possible. On top of that, they begin indoctrination of these innocents with peculiar and deviant lifestyles as being in their best interests.
Here is a study form Harvard on this matter of emotional abuse of children.
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php?cID=430
Emotional abuse imposed on a child, via a political policy and ideology of ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ is sinister and perverse. A State induced scheme that imposes sanctions on traditional marriage, by manipulating a system where a one working couple are far worse off than a single unit, has thereby pushed them away from a stable, secure joint family. This policy has been found so detrimental to the development of the child, which will indeed affect them for their entire life, should therefore be found abusive by any State. And one who promotes such policy should be forced to bring those who create such a system, to face personal accountability for their actions against humanity.
A nursery or child caring institution is divorced from the loving care of parents as the main provider, which has been proven is emotional abuse of the child and the family as a whole.
http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/24/the-measure-of-a-mothers-love-how-early-deprivation-derails-child-development/
I therefore trust, April 12, ‘The international Day of Street Children’ also includes those children who are forced to abandon their parents care because the State has adopted an institutional attitude toward the rights and needs of the nuclear family. Children coerced into an orphanage style of life are equally as emotionally abused as many we see on the streets.
Charity begins at home.
I was visited this morning by the representative of “Action for Children” which seems to be an NSPCC spin off, in order to enlist my support to house the 16-25 year olds overnight when they are homeless. I shall be glad to do the favour. It is not a Catholic organization but they do good work.
It appears that both you and Honoris Causa are supportive of the Roman Catholic religious standpoint
which is as seriously inhibitive of all-round healthy Somatic education and wellbeing-building, at all age levels, as any other religion.
Be that as it may, Lord Hylton, you say that
“The cause is often the loss of parentage, or extreme poverty”, and [only] “in countries with no welfare system”.
In point of fact we 1st Worldians need to be enabled to “make known”
not just that
“one day a year is set aside for helping Disadvantaged Street Children internationally”
but that the major and dominant Educational and Child Development organisations of our “leading and exemplary 1st World nations”,
starting with the UK,
are coming up-to-date with advances in Individual Human Development knowledge
and with the various new practical Know-Hows thereto/therefrom,
and providing both Primary and Catch-Up educational services therein
thus enabling all strata of the Population including Parliamentary, Judiciary and Establishmentarian Leaders and Members, as well as Street Chidren, to make at least some ‘beginner’ level improvement in their abilities and livingnesses,
in their thrival-survival and their more-sustainworthy well-being building,
using these advances
which you will find begin most vitally with the greatly advancing but still grossly undersubscribed
Somatic Enablement
[educational curriculum: try “The Body of Life” by Thomas Hanna,
and currently even “The Whole Brain Child” by Siegel & Bryson {despite its avoidance of the major Somatic foundation}] …
which do both include the holistic bodymind principle of “Be moving it, or Losing it” –
{instead of a hugely costly and ‘trapped-in-yesterday’ police and authoritarian workforce, and public,
asbo-ing street-children and suchlike of any age
and merely ad nauseam “moving them on” still energyless, common-goalless, and both individually and socially un-integrated and effectively de-citizen’d).
Thanks for your comment