Violence against children: a global report

Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio

doi:10.1590/s1413-81232006000200022

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“…The incidence of all-cause infanticide is underreported, but thought to be high in some societies (Pinheiro, 2006;Pitt and Bale, 1995). For example, a study of 1000 neonatal deaths in India found that 41% were due to infanticide (Pinheiro, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

Cleft-Related Infanticide and Abandonment: A Systematic Review of the Academic and Lay Literature

Stewart

Hatcher

Sengupta³

et al. 2017

The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

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Objective: We aimed to describe the scope of cleft-related infanticide and identify issues that might inform prevention strategies.Design: Systematic reviews of both academic (eg, PubMed, EBSCOhost) and lay literature (eg, LexisNexis Academic, Google) databases were performed to identify all primary reports of cleft-related infanticide. All languages were included. Records before 1985 were excluded. Reference lists of all included reports were screened for potentially relevant records. Main Outcome Measures:Country of origin and excerpts that pertained to the concepts surrounding cleft-related infanticide were extracted. Extracted excerpts were examined using a content analysis framework.Results: Of the 1,151 records retrieved, 70 reports documented cleft-related infanticide from 27 countries. The largest number of reports was from China (14 reports; 48% of reports), followed by India (4; 14%) and Nigeria (4; 14%). However, 2 countries had 3 reports, 5 countries had 2 reports, and 17 countries had 1 report. Themes that emerged from excerpt analysis included stigma, lack of affordable cleft care, abandonment, orphanage overcrowding, and abuse and slavery.Conclusions: Cleft-related infanticide is a global problem. Initiatives to sensitize communities to cleft lip and/or cleft palate, provide timely and affordable cleft care, and build support systems for affected families may prove beneficial. Cleft care organizations have the opportunity to advocate for these initiatives, reduce the incidence of infanticide by providing or supporting timely and affordable cleft care, and demonstrate that children with successful cleft repairs reassimilate well into their communities.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Cleft-Related Infanticide and Abandonment: A Systematic Review of the Academic and Lay Literature

Stewart

Hatcher

Sengupta³

et al. 2017

The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

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“…The same would happen regarding the social expectations of how a girl should behave. As a result, being a girl growing up in a context in which she sees how women are more likely to become victims of a kind of violence (Pinheiro 2006) will modulate whether she sees herself as a potential victim or not, which, in turn, will shape her self-concept and agency by filtering the decisions that she may feel free and comfortable to make. This, alongside other specific cultural and social obstacles and cultural expectations and prejudices about female sexuality makes girls' bodily integrity especially vulnerable (Cook and Dickens 2000).…”

Section: Girls' Bodily Integritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Girlhood and Ethics

Cabezas¹,

Schweiger

2016

Girlhood Studies

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Our concern is with the ethical issues related to girlhood and bodily integritythe right to be free from physical harm and harassment and to experience freedom and security in relation to the body. We defend agency, positive self-relations, and health as basic elements of bodily integrity and we advocate that this normative concept be used as a conceptual tool for the protection of the rights of girls. We assume the capability approach developed by Martha Nussbaum as an ethical framework that enables us to evaluate girls' well-being and well-becoming in relation to the potential, and often subtle, threats they face. The capability approach can be understood as a theory of justice, and, therefore, as an ethical and political approach. An enriched concept of bodily integrity can help in the design of better policies to address gender biases against girls because it could contribute to seeing them as active agents and valid participants.

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“…This report also explicitly included sex and human trafficking, prostitution and pornography as significant activities through which the sexual abuse of children and young adults is perpetrated, estimating that 150 million girls and 73 million boys under 18 experienced sexual violence worldwide during 2002 alone (Pinheiro 2006). While exact prevalence rates may be difficult to pin down, all research into this area points towards high numbers.…”

Section: Presencementioning

confidence: 99%