With economic, cultural and social influences changing as the year’s progress, it has come to no surprise that the safety and compromise of children in Australian society has become a troublesome subject for many. Parents of children are regarded as having the primary responsibility to raise their children and to ensure the rights they possess to protect them from child abuse and neglect. However, while a vast majority of parents are capable of having the resources to raise a happy and healthy family in their community, there are a minority whom need extra help to support their growing family and provide the best systematic opportunities for their children.
The number of children over the past decade who have been subjected to child abuse and …show more content…
In the early winter months of 2012, NSW Police and Community Services discovered what is thought to be the nation’s most appalling saga of child abuse and one of the worst accounts of incest ever to be made public in an Australian community. The Colt Family moved from State to State to evade detection of Child Protection Services as the services are a state-based responsibility and thus, the family easily evaded Australian Authorities. Three generations -40 members- were found on an isolated farm in south-west NSW with massive accounts of intergenerational incest between all members of the family found on the …show more content…
People are unable to accept that child abuse happens in their community more frequently than they think it does. This can be very damaging to the children affected by it. The problem, in actual fact, is communities, parents and people do not want to believe that children are being violated by a family member or people they know. When children try to speak up and say they are being abused in any form, most do not believe them. Child abuse and neglect still remains a problem because of this collective denial in adults to accept the fact they have failed to protect a child or children around them from harm. Such acts reduce the likelihood of action to support the effort to tackle the problem of child abuse and neglect in
The number of children over the past decade who have been subjected to child abuse and …show more content…
In the early winter months of 2012, NSW Police and Community Services discovered what is thought to be the nation’s most appalling saga of child abuse and one of the worst accounts of incest ever to be made public in an Australian community. The Colt Family moved from State to State to evade detection of Child Protection Services as the services are a state-based responsibility and thus, the family easily evaded Australian Authorities. Three generations -40 members- were found on an isolated farm in south-west NSW with massive accounts of intergenerational incest between all members of the family found on the …show more content…
People are unable to accept that child abuse happens in their community more frequently than they think it does. This can be very damaging to the children affected by it. The problem, in actual fact, is communities, parents and people do not want to believe that children are being violated by a family member or people they know. When children try to speak up and say they are being abused in any form, most do not believe them. Child abuse and neglect still remains a problem because of this collective denial in adults to accept the fact they have failed to protect a child or children around them from harm. Such acts reduce the likelihood of action to support the effort to tackle the problem of child abuse and neglect in