Child Abuse
Weekend Beat/ CHILD ABUSE RISING: Hurt and angry, forsaken children haunt the streets
"Child consultation centers nationwide handled 26,569 cases of child abuse in fiscal 2003, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. In comparison, there were only 1,101 cases in 1990.
The increase is far too large to attribute simply to an increasing public awareness of the problem. The facts speak for themselves-more children are being abused, yet there are only 1,800 child consultation workers to cover the entire country, a number that has grown by only 300 in the past 15 years.
``Each caseworker has to handle dozens of cases. They are just too busy,'' said a mental health professional who evaluates the psychological state of children at a child consultation center."
International Herald Times/Asahi: March 26,2005
"Child consultation centers nationwide handled 26,569 cases of child abuse in fiscal 2003, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. In comparison, there were only 1,101 cases in 1990.
The increase is far too large to attribute simply to an increasing public awareness of the problem. The facts speak for themselves-more children are being abused, yet there are only 1,800 child consultation workers to cover the entire country, a number that has grown by only 300 in the past 15 years.
``Each caseworker has to handle dozens of cases. They are just too busy,'' said a mental health professional who evaluates the psychological state of children at a child consultation center."
International Herald Times/Asahi: March 26,2005
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