Tanzania: Cruelty on Children Seen Escalating

opinion

NOT a day goes by without a media report of abuse or cruelty towards a child. Most child abuse is, seemingly, committed in urban centres where moral decay is most prevalent. Parents now worry more about the welfare of their children.

Child abusers are now a menace. It is commendable that as a society we can now talk more openly about child abuse. Not many years ago, when child rearing was a communal responsibility in most tribal settings, child abuse was virtually unknown. We now know that some people are cruel to children.

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