Interesting to watch a programme last week by Esther Rantzen who started the Childline charity to offer help to abused children many years back.
Probably seems two-faced to bring this up after a post about kids getting a beating for doing wrong, but I'm sure you'll realise the difference.
There is no excuse for the type of people who abuse children (physically, mentally or sexually), and these people should be caught and exposed.
The basis of the programme was that Esther was actually blaming herself for the rise of over the top Political correctness that we see today, although her motives were good at the time she didn't anticipate the steps that are currently in place.
The programme showed instances such as a 2 year old girl who died after falling in a fish pond after wandering out of a nursery, she was seen by a guy going past before her death but he didn't stop to check for fear of being labelled a paedophile if he was seen talking to her, another was a little girl who was out on a school trip and ended up with serious sunburn, her parents had supplied her with sun cream and told her to ask a teacher to put some on her back if it was sunny, it had got hot that day so the child asked the teacher who refused as she wasn't allowed to touch the children for fear of being sued or worse?
An experiment was set up using child actors in a shopping centre, the kids were asked to pretend to be lost and in a state of distress, hundreds of people walked by before a woman actually stopped, when asked if she was worried about asking the kid if they were alright she said she was in case people had the wrong idea, virtually every man that was asked said they didn't stop for the same reason.
Brought back memories of the James Bulger incident.
Esther's conclusion was that Political Correctness was now becoming a risk to children, the Childline project was set up to help the Children that had no one to turn to, but under today's climate all kids have a lot less people to turn to as everyone is afraid of helping.
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