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Do you think in the 21st century too we hold and preach it? No rather, human values have been degraded to a great extent especially concerning children while we elders were busy making money and ignoring the emotional baggage our children carry within.
The Peace Ambassador, Dr Varun Gupta believes that children of all genders, social backgrounds, nationalities, and ages are harassed, smacked, tortured, and also killed with an accelerated algorithm since recent past. Violence against children is taking the shape of a global epidemic. Today, child abuse and violence are not only limited to homes and families but also schools, colleges, offices, and societies.
Edupreneur, Dr Varun Gupta has passed through numerous research reports claiming that brutality against children is one of the biggest problems affecting families and communities. Child assault has many forms varying from mental, emotional, physical, sexual abuse, neglect, domestic violence and much more.
While travelling to more than 35 countries, and coming across 2 million people, the travel enthusiast, Dr Varun Gupta has observed that domestic violence has affected children deeply, with severe consequences for their psychological, mental, and physical health.
Dr Varun Gupta, the Executive Vice President on Sky Global (USA) recollects from a session in London in recent past where a child psychologist had mentioned that with a lack of support, domestic violence can lead to trauma and affect the long term development of children. To add to the matter of surprise was the dialect that the people who usually carry out such violent acts are those closest to the children. It can be their parents, teachers, siblings, guardians, employers, and the people who are meant to protect them. Sad! But yes, we need to be vigilant, aware and be prepared with an action plan for such barbaric global pandemic.
Violence can affect children for the rest of their life. They can experience depression, anxiety, aggression, and pass on the violence to their peers or future generations. Therefore, Dr Varun Gupta (Education Advisor to the State of African Diaspora) as a responsible citizen has drafted some effective approaches to cease the course of violence and help children become better human beings and thrive after experiencing it.
Thus, child exploitation in the form of abuse, domestic violence, child labour etc. pervades the developing world. Despite a lot of progress in the world, millions of children are still living without their basic rights. Their lives are being touched by conflict, slavery, sexual abuse and the impacts of climate conditions. Though there are bad times but also there are good times and saviors who care to make a difference in the world. With a firm belief to let no child spend his life with a few bad memories of his childhood, Dr Varun Gupta, being the education advisor to numerous educational institutions in Sri Lanka has joined hands with NGOs to work towards the upliftment of children.
John Linton Monday, 08 June 2020 08:38 PM
Great. A voice with high pitch. This is a most important area to be approached carefully.
Prof Lakshman Madurasinghe Monday, 08 June 2020 08:50 PM
Dr.Varun’s insights are very vital at a time when we see an erosion in life values and a consumeristic culture that robs a person of the inner peace and quietness needed to form a contented life. It is important that our education contains values- education focusing on Respect, Family, Respecting Religions, Justice, Honesty, Never hurting anyone which are a few to be noted. Varun’s experience with many cultures will help him understand the best way to approach this topic in a timely and culturally sensitive manner to carry this message to the youth worldwide.
Hemant Kumar Dubey Monday, 08 June 2020 11:06 PM
Its true that in today's world the children are the most affected due to career and lifestyle ambitions of parents. They are physically and emotionally tortured. Most of the time this happens due to ignorance pf parents. Proper counseling of parents as well as the children is need of the day. This article is very informative and had not only nailed the issues with children but also given solution to them.
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