I have to agree with pretty much everything you say but you can't really blame the media for reporting the case, HOW it's reported is another matter!
In answer to your final question, I think I would prefer to err on the side of caution, 50 deaths per yeat is still 50 too many.
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Quote by staffcple
A UNICEF report in 2003 suggested that child deaths from abuse is more than twice as high as official records suggest...and they stated that 2 children a week under 15 died as a result of child abuse.
I'm not trying to be pendantic and argue about numbers, just that 2/3 per day is a quite staggering statistic.
It's a bit of a 'creative account' to be fair, the report itself states that when deaths with “undetermined cause” are included this more than doubles the death rate per 100,000 children.
From 0.4 per 100,000 to 0.9 per 100,000.
They qualify this addition;
"The assumption made by UNICEF in this report is that when no other cause can be established the death is most likely to be the result of maltreatment that cannot be proven in a court of law."
Not exactly honest for me, but hey, it proves a point in some ways, statistics can be manipulated to show pretty much whatever you want them to.
Yep, agree totally re the manipulation of statistics but it does suggest that the official figure in 2003 was somewhere in the region of 50 deaths per year.
Quote by kentswingers777
. ....snip...Between 2/3 child die every day through child abuse.
Are you sure about that number? If so, then that is a staggering statistic......and one I'm sure the press would have a field day with.
Yes that is a true figure but....that figure also takes into account parents who kill their children when they take their own lives. Most of those children are NOT under any social protection order either.
Roughly one child a day dies that way.... I read that somewhere only recently....tragic.
A UNICEF report in 2003 suggested that child deaths from abuse is more than twice as high as official records suggest...and they stated that 2 children a week under 15 died as a result of child abuse.
I'm not trying to be pendantic and argue about numbers, just that 2/3 per day is a quite staggering statistic.
Quote by kentswingers777
. ....snip...Between 2/3 child die every day through child abuse.
Are you sure about that number? If so, then that is a staggering statistic......and one I'm sure the press would have a field day with.
Yes that is a true figure but....that figure also takes into account parents who kill their children when they take their own lives. Most of those children are NOT under any social protection order either.
Roughly one child a day dies that way.... I read that somewhere only recently....tragic.
A UNICEF report in 2003 suggested that child deaths from abuse is more than twice as high as official records suggest...and they stated that 2 children a week under 15 died as a result of child abuse.
I'm not trying to be pendantic and argue about numbers, just that 2/3 per day is a quite staggering statistic.
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