Mexico's Children Suffer Familial, Social, Political, Economic Violence Emir Olivares Alonso - La Jornada
go to original June 4, 2013

The violence that confronts Mexico places children and adolescents as one of the groups most unprotected and vulnerable to physical, mental and emotional abuse, said Silvia Solís San Vicente, from the National School of Social Work at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

On the eve of the International Day of Innocent Child Victims of Aggression, commemorated June 4, the academic said that in addition to family aggressions, Mexican children suffer social, political and economic violence.

Official figures show that two children under 14 years die every day because of the violence in Mexico. Meanwhile, information from the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) indicates that our country occupies one of the first places in physical violence, sexual abuse and murder of children and adolescents, which is often inflicted by parents themselves.

According to the international organization, six in ten Mexican children have directly experienced some form of violence at home or at school. Several reports generalize that the mother was responsible in almost half the cases (47 percent), and the father was responsible in 29 percent of cases.

Read the rest at Mexico Voices

We invite you to add your charity or supporting organizations' news stories and coming events to PVAngels so we can share them with the world. Do it now!