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Peter Kopa, 13.2.18, Prague
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Ruling of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Almost one billion children under seventeen are exposed to various types of violence such as sexual abuse, mistreatment and even physical violence. This has been declared by the organization on 8.2.2018 in Geneva and in the following days the Director General of the organization, Tendros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Queen Silvia of Sweden and 30 ministers will study and seek solutions to this pressing problem.
According to the WHO, every fifth child has ever suffered physical violence or emotional abuse. Eighteen percent of girls and eight percent of boys have experienced sexual violence, and it is understood that such victims smoke much more than others of their age and drink more alcohol. At the same time, cases of psychic imbalance, depression, cancer and AIDS infections are more common.
On the one hand, there is a need for the Laws to impose zero tolerance to these types of crimes, and on the other hand, there is a growing conviction that the optimal solution is a stable traditional family.
The most harmful marginalization: the own children
All this is the final consequence of so much divorce, of so much abortion that disqualifies the mother from educating her children with true love, of so many cases of indifference in parents who put their career and their pleasures first, however legitimate they may be. In this sense, there is no choice but to recognize the great dignity that minors also have. In certain European intellectual circles, rather in Northern Europe, the retrograde view has emerged that the family is becoming an obsolete social institution.
The family, the only alternative
On the other hand, empirical research has always known – for example – that parents, compared to people who live alone, are much happier, healthier and live longer. And this fact is defended by many scientists in the field, such as Andreas Lange, Kurt Luescher and the British John Bolwby, who died in 1990, who initially was even labeled as reactionary and now his psychological studies on the family are considered very topical. He affirms that the child, in the first years of his life, consolidates the psychic stability. But if at this stage he does not receive the attention and affection of his parents, symptoms of psychic imbalance and depravity often appear. Nicole Strueber, a neurobiologist in the city of Bremen, Germany, says the same thing. She opposes the giant state kindergartens, as long as one wants to replace the parents, who so often would prefer to leave everything in the hands of the state.
Studies in the USA have long shown the correlation between socialization and criminality. Even in high crime neighborhoods, boys and girls who have grown up in families with a good moral sense have remained immune to the influence of the environment. The couple Brigitte and Peter Berger, both sociologists, wrote in 1983 in defense of the family: ‘The alternative to the family is always the family,’ and that therefore society must protect it above all else.
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This article is inspired by the publications of Walter Hollstein, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology and Advisor to the Council of Europe. Lives in Basel, Switzerland
