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324: JORDAN: CHILDREN EXPOSED TO AGGRESSION, INSULTS, PHYSICAL & SEXUAL ABUSES & MOLESTATIONS – I added SEXUAL because I know it.
16 July, 2008

JORDAN: CHILDREN EXPOSED TO AGGRESSION, INSULTS, PHYSICAL & SEXUAL ABUSES & MOLESTATIONS – I added SEXUAL because I know it.

 

IRIN-News Monday 14th July 2008

 

AMMAN: According to a recent study by UNICEF, over half of Jordanian children between the ages of 6 and 18 are physically abused, insulted, or exposed to some form of aggressive behaviour by their parents and brothers, or school teachers; whether at home or at school, beating, slapping and demeaning insults are commonplace. The study showed that 70% of children said they were insulted by their parents; 53% said they were beaten, and 34% said they were severely abused physically. Conditions in schools are no better: with 71% of children being humiliated by teachers in public. Physical abuses in schools are also prevalent, with 57% of children being subjected to severe physical abuses by teachers.

 

Mid-way comment:

Now, dear readers and fellow-Apes; don’t the above two paragraphs tell half the story and half the truth; I ask you? And doesn’t this ‘severe physical abuses’ leave you hanging half-way between the beginning and the end; and force you to use, or misuse, your imagination to guess the rest; I ask you again? HORSE-SHIT! And don’t let the horse know!

 

A government school teacher said parents often encouraged teachers to discipline their children to improve their educational achievements. Some parents actually come to the school and specifically ask us to beat their children – what is this; parental and sibling guilt complexes begging for support; needing to feel good because others are beating and severely abusing their children and brothers and mostly sisters, too?  – noting that at least 80% of teachers beat their students. The teachers, who routinely beat certain types of students, claim it is mainly because they are disobedient during classes or during breaks. If the teachers did not beat the students, the classes would become chaotic and good students would be deprived of the chance to learn. Average classes in government schools have 40 students while in schools run by the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees have 55. Kindly note my inserted comment in this paragraph.

 

Mid-way comment: HORSE-SHIT AGAIN! And don’t let the horse know!

40 and 55! JEEZ! With that many students in one class, not even God and His partner, Satan, could possibly handle, let alone control, them! BY GOD!

 

 

A teacher is currently facing disciplinary proceedings for bursting a child's ear-drum after slapping him for a misdemeanor. A Ministry of Education source said that the young teacher, who was appointed last summer, faces dismissal. Good riddance to the Ass-hole! One down and the rest to go! BY GOD AGAIN!

 

 

Low self-esteem

 

 

UNICEF experts say the problem is difficult to treat or handle because parents do not mind their children being beaten, and a Gender and Child Protection Officer said the problem was on the rise. Although abused children suffer from low self-esteem and are unhappy with such conditions, it doesn't bother their parents. The long-term curse is that, if these aggressions, insults, and ‘severe physical abuses’ are allowed to go on for long, they will become socially acceptable norms.

 

 

Another survey conducted by the government-run National Council for Family Affairs in 2005 showed that one in three people knew, or had seen or heard, about violence among relatives. A National Council for Family Affairs study showed that most abuses were by fathers, followed by brothers, and mothers.

My comments: MOTHERS, TOO! BY GOD, ONE MORE TIME! These mothers are either venting their spleen on their children – especially daughters – or re-living their childhoods and adolescences through them. In any case, it is the typical Arab Male Mentality: to the Arab males, children – especially girls – are personal properties, to do with what they will; and grand-mothers, mothers, aunts, wives, sisters, nieces, cousins, grand-daughters, or distant female relatives, are slaves or servants, and prisoners at worst; pieces of property and objects of pleasure and amusement at moderate; and retarded persons who need constant watching and supervision at best.

 

 

If women have no rights in Arab and Arab-speaking or Islamic countries: Iran, Syria, the KSA, Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Sudan, Somalia – you name it – then at least half of the populations of all of these countries have no rights; and if at least half of the other half of the populations are being intimidated, threatened, and subdued by the first half – actually, all these countries do not need any reasons or excuses since they create and/or invent their own – then what have we here?

Take a day or two off to work it out.

 

 

Don’t look now, but here is the answer: Less than a quarter of the populations of all the Arab and Arab-speaking and Islamic countries live well in opulence and gluttony, while the rest (most of them) exist and/or subsist within, and on the fringes of, poverty and starvation. It also means that half the potentials of all these countries are being submerged and suppressed – suffocated; since, in my not-so-humble opinion, women are the other half – if not the much better half – of any and every societies or communities in any and every country on the planet.

 

 

Read my postings: 124 / 127 / 133 / 139 / 201 / 229 / 240 / 303/ 304

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