Pay attention to kids' issues, needs

The awareness on child abuse is still low in our society, thus it needs to be strongly inculcated at all levels to prevent it from happening. Some perceive that only physical abuse merits serious attention. However, mental abuse should also not be tolerated. More than 2,000 children are abused each year with more than 6,000 cases reported in 2019. On top of that, most of the perpetrators are parents, especially mothers. Those figures should have set the alarm bells ringing. One indirect factor that we observe is that of women who are working.