National Study on Child Abuse here (200 pages report). I haven't read it fully. A few things I noted: My home state Tamilnadu was not part of the survey - of the southern states, Andhra and Kerala are. The summary shown below is a slap in the face of any society that lets such atrocities happen to its children.
I read a related post via reddit that got me thinking.
Take a predominantly patriarchal society - like all other societies of , well, almost all times; let this society wither time and space like no other over a few thousand years; let social cohesion be defined by fluid but loosely coherent religious sentiments and gods; let identity be defined by the failures of societies other than itself; let the world rediscover liberty, equality, and the many other good, bad and ugly ities; let the world then come to the rescue of Others still in the dark ages, or at the very least dark-skinned.
Still with me? Good. Now, after a few decades when all the dust has settled, let a mild mannered abuse-fearing reporter from an island that ruled this society go check on a report about women. The Indian government wants to place Child abuse on the National Agenda. A laudable goal. There is someone with moral fibre in the Ministry of Women and Child Development. Who is this reporter? What did he say? Wait no more. I give you Peter Foster, a reporter at Telegraph. Peter Foster professes his desire for a useful discussion on the report he is writing about. But how do you write a post that draws a discussion and not the decorated sword? That's a hundred comments question.
I'm always suspicious of such surveys - it's too hard to be sure of the conditions of the questioning and the testimony of children on such sensitive matters - but the data does reveal disturbing trends.As a foreigner, it's not uncommon to hear Indians voicing their superiority about the strength of the Indian family unit when compared to the fractured society of the West.
Is there a reason to think that things got this much worse over the past 5 years? Or could this be at least a bit encouraging, in that people may be reporting at a higher rate than before?
It's probably more people reporting but that's just my opinion.
Whatever is reported is certainly only a small percentage of the actual number of crimes committed as the report itself acknowledges.
exactly. a lot of it goes unreported. the numbers must be higher if the survey is from the records.
also form the reposnse to the blogathon done last year on women and domestic abuse and eveteasing. (on the exaggerated scale) it seemed like every woman or someone they know may have been moslested by someone they know or a family member.