Childline: Worrying trend among children Suicidal thoughts from 7-year-olds

Childline: Worrying trend among children
Suicidal thoughts from 7-year-olds


Geisha Kowlessar

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Children as young as seven and eight are contemplating suicide due to traumatic incidents in their lives.

This according to Mary Moonan, programme coordinator of Childline who spoke to members of the media after the opening ceremony of the Judicial Reform and Institutional Strengthening (Jurist) Project launched at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Port-of-Spain yesterday.

Childline is a free, confidential telephone helpline and listening service for children in trouble or danger.

“What we are seeing are emerging trends of children who are quite traumatised at an early age by things that they ought not to be concerned with. So they are thinking of suicide.

“It is a very heart rendering situation and you ask yourself what has happened in the family that someone so young would think about those things,” Moonan said.

On what may lead to suicidal thoughts in young children, she said the core issue was a lack of support within the home.

“If you don’t have a father present...you have a mother who sometimes would hold down two jobs just to keep things going so the children are quite often neglected emotionally...they don’t have that emotional support.

“When they go home the mother is not there. They come home to an empty house and sometimes they have very little self worth. They don’t know why they are in this world,” Moonan said.

Moonan said more children have been reaching out to Childline for help but this was not just for sexual offences alone.

Asked to provide sexual offences statistics involving children she referred to the Police Service saying the statistics compiled by Childline would not be a representation of the national trend.

On its website the Police Service reported 388 cases of rape, incest and sexual offences for the year to date.

She also expressed concern that the family unit was “fast disappearing,” adding that the extended family was also in jeopardy as in some cases grandmothers were working resulting in children not having anyone to turn to.

“So these children really feel very alone and it is a sad situation,” Moonan said.

Saying this was not in the country’s best interest she asked, “When these children grow up you ask yourself how functional will they be? Can they operate as normal? They are traumatised and need help?”

She said when a troubled call came to Childline, counselling was provided by trained personnel and in serious situations the caller was referred to other agencies for help.

Moonan said while yesterday’s launch was welcomed what was also needed was the implementation of laws and a change in culture to properly tackle the problem of violence, including sexual offences against women and children.

Canadian High Commissioner Carla Hogan Rufelds said there have been daily reports of sexual violence against women, an indication that this remained a serious problem, both in terms of numbers and the difficulties in bringing the perpetrator to justice.

The Jurist Project is a five-year regional Caribbean judicial reform initiative funded under an arrangement with the Canadian government. It is being implemented in at least six countries on behalf of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development (DFATD) and the heads of judiciary of Caricom. The project works with judiciaries in the region to support their own efforts to improve court administration and strengthen the ability of the courts and the judiciary to resolve cases efficiently and fairly.

This is shocking .

Why is this happening ? ::confused::

another emotionally bleak, doom and gloom perspective, thread...with no way out at all thread.

how this happened, what is it all about, how can we get out, what can be done to correct...what, what what phucking what tuh rarse....


THIS ALIEN IDIOT COME HERE TO DRIVE PEOPLE MAD OR WHAT :: :: :: ::

ITS THE SAME KIND OF INSANE CHIN, SOCA FIGHTER TOTALLY INSANE, RANCID, NEGATIVE, NO-WAY-OUT ARGUMENT FORMULATION THAT PROVIDES NO POSITIVES AT ALL.

WHAT THE PHUCK IS THIS!  THIS BOARD SIMPLY CANT GET RID OF THIS ARSEHOLE, DOTISH, IDIOT, SPIRIT KILLING PERSON ::confused:: ::confused:: ::confused:: ::confused::

why do you defend this insanity chairman?  wat kiss mih arse style you talking about.

human beings have a life..we know what form it takes and by the conditions of existence and what it demands of us to survive we have a consistent behavior that is set by nature itself

socafighter is mentally sick...out of sync with this natural life. 

she is out of whack with reality, opposed to common sense, inconsistent with what humans call normal.  she is loco fighter, nuts..sprained brained.  and that is what you choose to defend...what you call her own style..a lunatic style!!!

be my guess!  piss on this.  I lost my temper today to this jaqckass situation.  it wont happen again
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Who is rowley ? Is he related to mapoui ?

Is he dougla also.

This dougla boy calling me socafighter , then he claims I sick.
I told the man I am not this poster.
I am living in a country that I was born in but it feels to me like I am an Alien .
I hope he gets that.

I am posting news that seems to be prevalent throughout  the Caribbean .

Now he claims its not good news .

These Trini douglas not to brite Borse. 

I am glad ah not Trini or I would be like mapoui. ::LOL:: ::LOL::

Sick and tired of these Trini centric posts.

I don't post stuff from Trini only . I get free publications and post what I think
is a change in Caribbean society .

Check out what I post over the next week and it will verify my position.