Re: Corporal Punishment...How common in Pakistani Culture
Many children on the streets are runaways from corporal punishment in the home and are thus pushed into other types of violence prevalent on the streets.
It is really startling to note that there is very less mention on the very practicality of corporal punishment, the pillars of corporal punishment, the worst form perhaps that exists, a manner in which children are forced off an arm or a leg or certain body parts just so their 'caretakers' (beggars in reality) can have them "on display" at the stop lights, intersections and every place in-between. Punishments handed out at schools, from where I view it, do not come close to the ones given out in two places; 1) Madrassahs, where little kids are literally taken apart by 'seniors' while Maulvis lash out with sticks; 2) Streets, worst of the lot. There has been a major rise in beggars bringing in children with them at unGodly hours in the morning, 7 am on a Sunday nonetheless, half of the lot I doubt have children of their own. It is these ruthless killings of the souls of little children which makes them incompetent to respectfully earn money in the society. What else is there to do when your right arm and right leg is cut forcefuly, forcing you to join the community of 'likes'.
The full article has come good 'awareness' points, but for those actually living and surviving these conditions on a daily basis, there needs to be a greater effort in the management of the youth of this country. It is harder to go through each point when you know the ones who are affected by the plague can only depend on the Higher Authority.