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Still unseen and ignored: Tracking community knowledge and attitudes about child abuse and child protection in Australia
In September 2003, we released the first results of a national community attitude tracking study about child abuse and child protection. At that time, we concluded that as a community, violence against children was tolerated. The community did not understand or appreciate the seriousness, size and c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9480499/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36118438 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.860212 |
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description | In September 2003, we released the first results of a national community attitude tracking study about child abuse and child protection. At that time, we concluded that as a community, violence against children was tolerated. The community did not understand or appreciate the seriousness, size and cost of child abuse in Australia. There was evidence that child abuse was not viewed as an important challenge facing children in Australia. A second study conducted in 2006 found that nothing much had changed, indeed community engagement with the issue of child abuse may have even deteriorated. A third study in 2010 found that the community actively avoids the problem of child abuse rating it less concerning than high petrol prices. In 2021, 18 years after the first report was published, we have concluded again that child abuse remains out of sight and out of mind as a community concern. This article describes the findings of this fourth iteration of our survey and analyses the implications for ensuring that individuals are more engaged and committed to taking action to preventing child abuse and/or protecting children from violation. |
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spelling | pubmed-94804992022-09-17 Still unseen and ignored: Tracking community knowledge and attitudes about child abuse and child protection in Australia Tucci, Joseph Mitchell, Janise Front Psychol Psychology In September 2003, we released the first results of a national community attitude tracking study about child abuse and child protection. At that time, we concluded that as a community, violence against children was tolerated. The community did not understand or appreciate the seriousness, size and cost of child abuse in Australia. There was evidence that child abuse was not viewed as an important challenge facing children in Australia. A second study conducted in 2006 found that nothing much had changed, indeed community engagement with the issue of child abuse may have even deteriorated. A third study in 2010 found that the community actively avoids the problem of child abuse rating it less concerning than high petrol prices. In 2021, 18 years after the first report was published, we have concluded again that child abuse remains out of sight and out of mind as a community concern. This article describes the findings of this fourth iteration of our survey and analyses the implications for ensuring that individuals are more engaged and committed to taking action to preventing child abuse and/or protecting children from violation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9480499/ /pubmed/36118438 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.860212 Text en Copyright © 2022 Tucci and Mitchell. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Tucci, Joseph Mitchell, Janise Still unseen and ignored: Tracking community knowledge and attitudes about child abuse and child protection in Australia |
title | Still unseen and ignored: Tracking community knowledge and attitudes about child abuse and child protection in Australia |
title_full | Still unseen and ignored: Tracking community knowledge and attitudes about child abuse and child protection in Australia |
title_fullStr | Still unseen and ignored: Tracking community knowledge and attitudes about child abuse and child protection in Australia |
title_full_unstemmed | Still unseen and ignored: Tracking community knowledge and attitudes about child abuse and child protection in Australia |
title_short | Still unseen and ignored: Tracking community knowledge and attitudes about child abuse and child protection in Australia |
title_sort | still unseen and ignored: tracking community knowledge and attitudes about child abuse and child protection in australia |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9480499/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36118438 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.860212 |
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