The Post-Pandemic Rise of Children Who Witnessed Violence at Home
A trend, that's NOWHERE N-E-A-R, good here, and yet, this is a vicious cycle, with the systems of counseling not set up functionally enough, and everything goes bust underneath, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Most of the Children Who Were Witnesses to Domestic Violence Usually Sent into Counseling at School, the Trials Can't Catch up to the Cases that are Occurring, the Children Who Were Traumatizes are Falling Through the Holes
There's a huge increase of violence at home globally during the pandemic, based off of the statistics reported by the Department of Health Welfare & Sanitations, even in the post-pandemic times, there's still a continual hike in the number of cases of domestic violence reports, the "witnessing children" of these violence, on the rise also, it's just, that as the number of witnesses steadily gets higher, the cases of counseling these children who witnessed the abuse continued at the steady rate of around 1,500 cases per year, and the schools which are the direct agencies relating to the children witnessing, have NO follow-up means, and the children who were abused, are falling through the, cracks.
Based off of estimates, the adult cases being reported back in 2019 was 26,258, to 2023, it'd gone up to 35,793, an increase of over 9,500 cases, and the cases overseen by social workers was around 1,500 on average, the highest was in 2021, with 1,674, most of the cases were counseled by the adult protection agency's social workers themselves, with the average of over 8,300 individuals getting counseled, the remaining over 15,000 were referred to the educational resources.
Du, the C.E.O. of Women Rescue Foundation stated, that the cases that were offered the assistance were mostly the children who live in the violent environments, the children who only witnessed the violence at home, are mostly counseled by the local organizations' social workers, but, the social workers of the private sectors, have less resources available compared to the public agencies, and can't provide enough help to those in need.
The legislator, Lin stated, that currently, the Department of Health and Social Welfare handed the children of seven and older who'd witnessed violence at home to the individual educational departments, but how to practically offer the care and concern, it'd lacked the management means, for instance, should it be the school instructors or the school counselors, there should be the rules set up clearly, "otherwise, both would believed, that each had done it, but in reality, nobody does a thing."
Du told, that in counseling the children who lives in the environment of domestic violence, mostly, the children's cases are being handled by the adult protection social workers, but, these workers needed to sort through the matters of the parents' domestic violence already, and had to take care of the minors' cares, it's not practical, and the degree of help offered is also, limited. She also mentioned, if the children who witnessed the violence weren't counseled by the children protection services' social workers, they're counseled by the school, and there would be the window of no help offered during the winter and summer vacation months.
And so, this IS, the lacking in the, systems, because the social workers are asked to carry everything, they're not only in charge of getting the adults who are caught in the domestic violence interactions directly, they also have to, oversee that the children from these families are, receiving the needed care, counseling, and the trials to hear these cases are still not, coming, fast enough, and so, naturally, children fall through the, cracks here.
The systems need to be reset, reordered, reconstructed, to work better, but we lacked the personnel, the funding, and so, children will still die off, really, fast…
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