How to control child abuse?

The story of private nursery school nannies abusing preschool and kindergarten children is not just happening now, but has been happening for many years...

Dealing with the symptoms and dealing with the situation, will the violence end?

After recent incidents like the Mam Xanh facility in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City, the social community was shocked; the police stepped in, investigated, and prosecuted; the government and the education sector inspected, reviewed, rectified, and handled...

Those who directly abuse children will be investigated and punished; some childcare facilities that do not meet operating standards will be fined or closed; some civil servants, government officials, and education officials will be noted, reminded, and lessons learned...

More private childcare facilities will be equipped with surveillance cameras...

The recent spate of child abuse cases has caused public panic.

These are actions to deal with the situation, to solve the problem at the surface, and to have a greater effect on reassuring public opinion. As Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoai Thu, former member of the Party Central Committee and former Chairwoman of the National Assembly's Committee on Social Affairs, said, this way of handling the incident, "when it's over, it will be quiet again as if nothing had happened."

“As quiet as if nothing had happened”, then inevitably, a new, similar incident will happen again.

No one can be sure that, after the Mam Xanh incident, here and there, even in Ho Chi Minh City, where there are about 1,800 non-public childcare facilities, or District 12, a similar Mam Xanh incident will not happen again.

No one is sure that after the Mam Xanh incident, society will pay attention and build more nurseries and kindergartens, reducing the heavy pressure on parents and reducing depression, autism, and psychological disorders in a number of children due to a way of raising children that is no different from child abuse.

Need a breakthrough policy for preschool education?

That is to seriously review the policy of socializing preschool education. In what way and to what extent should it be socialized? We must not use the policy of socializing preschool education to loosen up and deny the state's responsibility at this basic level of education. Should we encourage economic organizations to invest in facilities for educating preschool and kindergarten children?

Should we legislate the policy that every industrial park, urban area, resettlement area must have adequate childcare facilities and appropriate childcare staff? Should we look back at the educational policies of the subsidy period to absorb superior policies for children, for people, which are needed in every era?

At that time, along with the commune, ward, and residential area organizations, each economic organization, from cooperatives to construction sites, factories, and enterprises, organized nurseries and kindergartens, until the economy shifted to operate according to the laws of the market economy.

Even today, many developed capitalist countries still maintain the policy of subsidizing education, especially preschool education. A poor country like Cuba still does not abandon the policy of subsidizing education.

So should we publicize preschool education, especially the preschool teaching staff, as proposed by former Party Central Committee member and former Chairwoman of the National Assembly's Committee on Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Hoai Thu?

The best things must be for education, for children. Children must be treated fairly.

Preschool and kindergarten education is very important and sensitive, and can easily lead to unwanted consequences, including political and social ones. Solving the root cause of child abuse in nurseries and kindergartens is not just about handling the situation, but requires a macro-level, national policy.

Stopping at handling situations cannot end child abuse.

What is happening in reality tells us that, for preschool education, the State cannot abandon the policy of socialization. Socialization must have a certain level and must not deviate from the principles of education. The State must take care of the infrastructure, train teachers, and ensure that children in rural or urban areas, in mountainous or island areas, rich or poor, must all receive the same quality of care and education, without discrimination or difference.

According to VNN