WILLEMSTAD - The economic situation is deteriorating and the number of cases of child abuse is increasing. Adjutha Lambertina, social worker of the Child Protection Foundation and also connected to child telephone number 918 stated this on the International Day of the Rights of the Child.
Parents lose their jobs and do not know what to do with their own situation and the children suffer as a result. Child protection hopes to come up with figures that show this at the beginning of next year.
Also, the often-authoritarian upbringing where children are barely allowed to give their opinion leads to problems in Curacao families.