Mental health expert: The world loses 500 million children annually due to violence

Mahmoud al-Taqsh

Dr. Basant Farouk, a mental health consultant at the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood, said that violence is the simplest and fastest reaction resulting from one person to another as a result of anger, and that violence exists in all countries of the world and is not limited to specific countries, but its percentage varies from one country to another.

Farouk added, during his hosting on the dmc channel, that there are regarding one billion children annually who are abused in different ways, adding that there are 500 million children lost annually as a result of the violence used once morest them and that violence is not limited to children only, and that children may suffer from violence in multiple ways as it is considered a divorce Parents are a type of violence that a child suffers from.

She explained that violence is divided into direct violence and indirect violence, and that direct violence is sensory or physical violence, which is through beatings, while indirect violence is moral violence through deprivation or verbal punishment, explaining that there are multiple forms of violence, such as early marriage of girls or dropping out of education. or early child labour

She pointed out that bullying is a type of violence and that bullies are unhealthy people, noting that bullying may reach people of determination, and this is violence and indicates a lack of internal integrity and integrity.

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