Ostroeuropa wrote:I've been drinking, so ignore the language:
Child abuse incidents have risen a lot over quarantine.
This is a challenge to the Liberal notion that its because of the badmen, with badgenes and badmorals, a personal failure.
Instead, we should probably recognize;
it's mostly linked to psychological stress.
You've got like, absolute psychos who do it because that's just how they are, and then you've got people who snap under pressure and lash out.
Poverty increases pressure. The solution is less poverty and more access to mental health care and so on.
But quarantine also increases pressure.
This is why high pressure jobs have it happen more too, even if they are middle class.
If you're fretting over a meeting tomorrow that determines If you get a major promotion that your identity is based on and your four year old won't shut the fuck up and let you destress, and that's been going on for weeks, you have no time for yourself and no time to let of pressure, so you go mental.
Same for poverty. Fretting over where the next meal is going to come from and trying to be like "I can't think about this, it's making me ill, i'll watch TV and try and chill out" and then your four year old is there preventing you doing that causes a gradual build up as you have no time to chill out. It's stress after stress.
That only applies to psychological "Shut the fuck up you fat and ugly little shit, you're the worst thing that ever happened to me" style and beating style abuse. The sexual abuse stuff is not linked to stress, that's just a different type of fucked in the head like the ones who do it just because they enjoy it.
I also think classes teaching parents how to tell their kids to fuck off in a constructive way would be helpful. Or hell, and I know this is DANGEROUS SOCIALISM, maybe just emergency carers. Just give parents one or two calls a year where they can be like "I need you to babysit, because I'm going mental." and we'll send around a state appointed carer for the day/night.
This is why child abuse is also higher among single parents, both the poverty aspects and the "I have no time to chill out" aspects get worse.
The Tories on the other hand are just like "Oh yeah, child abuse is up by a considerable amount". They haven't quite busted out the "CULTURAL DEGENERATION" reasoning yet, but they're *deafeningly* silent on why that would be the case.