One in four people in the UK, aged between 18 and 24, claims to have experienced severe violence, sexual abuse or neglect as a child, says the children’s charity the NSPCC.
The study also says a million secondary school pupils have faced “severe maltreatment” during childhood.
The high levels stated cause me to dismiss it as nonsense immediately. However, as Julia reminds us:
The study defined “severe maltreatment” across a wide range of measures. It included young people who had been subject to rape, attempted rape, forced sexual contact, sexual abuse, physical harm such as a black eye and being hit with a weapon.
But it also included “serious emotional neglect or lack of physical care or supervision”, which it defined as including “parents never or hardly ever asking their child who they were going out with or where or what they were doing”.
And:
This category also included children reporting that “the child’s family never let the child know they cared about them”.
That’s how they get away with it, by including things that are not by any stretch of the fevered imagination, abuse. So, when you see those nasty emotional blackmailing adverts on the television demonising parents, remember that this fake charity doesn’t deserve a penny.
What we are seeing here is an attempt to enrich the NSPCC with a bit of shroud waving, nothing more. When you consider that the bond of trust that once existed between adults and children has now been eroded, it is organisations such as the NSPCC that are responsible with their propaganda campaigns. And the government is going to give them £11.2m of our money for them to continue their hateful campaign against us.
“That’s how they get away with it, by including things that are not by any stretch of the fevered imagination, abuse.”
Not just the ones you mention either. This is from a previous NSPCC report – written by an NSPCC employee, natch – when they were only claiming 1 in 6.
Cawson’s study didn’t just focus on what most people would term as abuse, but also consensual kissing and hugging between under 13s and those 5 years older than them. It also encompassed activities where the child might have been asleep or unaware, and we’re not talking being touched up here, merely being watched. Not only that, 30% of those asked couldn’t be bothered to reply so the study is fundamentally flawed straight away. Plus, of the 16% who the NSPCC class as being abused, only 6% actually said they felt they were.
You’re spot on, the NSPCC doesn’t deserve a red cent of anyone’s money, they’re hideous scaremongers for personal enrichment.
I haven’t given to many so called “childrens charities” for many years – they mostly just seem to be a front for anti-smacking nutters.
And I bet this “report” included smacking a naughty child as being “severe physical abuse”. The only thing that surprises me is that they only claimed 1 in 4 instead of 3 in 4. I guess they must have realised that even they couldn’t get away with that.
Bunch of idiotic leeches.
I went through divorce many years ago and my ex stopped me seeing our son. NSPCC opposed shared parenting post divorce at the time so i wrote to them.
A few years later and my son is with me due to maternal family physical abuse of him. He has had to have 18 months of counselling and refuses to see them (some abuse is real).
I will never give them a penny. Vacuos statements like abuse must stop. Full stop.
I’m shocked reading this post. Do you all really believe that not letting your child know they are loved and cared about is ok? That it’s not abuse? Do you suppose they grow up to be well adjusted adults, capable of forming healthy, positive relationships even though their parents showed no interest in them? Do you think they have positive self esteem and a high sense of self worth when no-one told them they loved them? Really?!? Unbelieveable.
The NSPCC are not “getting away” with including “fake statistics” – THIS IS ABUSE… and has far-reaching, negative and damaging consequences on children and young people. The young people didn’t recognise it as abuse? Well, you don’t if you’re brought up thinking it’s normal. Comment number 2: you’re getting indignant about statistics you “bet” were in the report… so you haven’t even read it and are commenting on things you yourself have accredited to them – that’s just ridiculous. I just can’t believe what I’m reading.
Okay, where to start with this cockwaffle, eh? Firstly, this not abuse and to suggest that it is devalues the term. The NSPCC is including things that are not by any stretch of the imagination abuse in order to big up their statistics. I can see that perfectly clearly from here and so can any normal, well adjusted person. Not asking a child where they are going? At a certain age, this is normal behaviour. Not telling them that they are cared for? You don’t need to and not doing so does not count as abuse – only a fool or a charlatan would try to claim that it is.
The NSPCC’s figures most certainly are fake statistics and if you’ve bought into them, then all I can say is that you are rather easily influenced by propaganda and don’t do much in the way of critical thinking.
My parents didn’t tell us that they cared for us, they didn’t need to. You are aware that around 70% of human communication is non-verbal? I and my siblings grew up to be perfectly well adjusted adults and are still close to our parents, yet according to the
nasty little outfitNSPCC we were abused. I find that insulting, frankly – this is made worse by the knowledge that they are stealing my money without my consent in order to engage in their propaganda campaign of demonising decent people.Then you have led a very sheltered life.
My Dad has NEVER told me he cares about me.
When I was a kid he got me a Chopper bike (among many other fine gifts), he took me to the park and on long nature walks. We explored old buildings, mine workings and quarries. He told me about his own childhood and experiences as well as industrial and local history. He took me shooting rabbits, taught me how to look after livestock and grow vegetables. Later on he would give me money when times were hard, he helped me learn to drive and even recently, aged 79 he rebuilt my old marshalite fireplace in stone.
Those are just the bits I can remember without having to think about it.
All this, yet people like Chesca and the nspcc would accuse him of “abusing” me because he smacked me sometimes as a punishment for being naughty and has NEVER said “I love you son”.
“Unbelievable” indeed.
Evil bastards!
My memories are similar. I find the NSPCC’s allegation that my parents abused me because of their failure to gush over me and my sisters deeply insulting.