Abstract
Violence has been looked at in three domains (the home, the school, the public place). The three usual forms of violence had been taken as the point of departure: physical violence, psychological-emotional violence and sexual violence. During the field work, structural violence (and intentional and non-intentional) neglect have been added. Much of the neglect and of the deficiencies is related to the miserable existence at the tail end of the world economy. Violence against children has been studied within the wider context of poverty and inequality. Lesser causality has been attributed to ‘culture’. Ubiquitous violence against children in all realms and in all its forms is a very serious issue. The voice of the children has put it in sharp perspective. Children in Kenya have moved into the ‘modern childhood’ phase, but in many respects in reality are depraved of such rights. They are more constrained by structure rather than liberated by agency. One of the main impediments is violence, which affects most of the children in the area. Although they may often have learned to accept it, they certainly hate and fear it but do not find ways of complaining or resisting. The CRC guidelines are official policy but various degrees and various forms of violence as well as learned helplessness are the reality.
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Lieten, G.K. (2015). Final Conclusions and Recommendations. In: Victims of Obtrusive Violence. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22807-5_10
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