{"id":243244,"date":"2006-09-05T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T15:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/09\/child-abuse-a-national-plan-needed"},"modified":"2006-09-05T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T15:08:51","slug":"child-abuse-a-national-plan-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/09\/child-abuse-a-national-plan-needed","title":{"rendered":"Child Abuse: A National Plan Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Christian church continues to renege in its responsibility to focus on the Bahamian family then the complex problems of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse will continue to spiral.<\/p>\n<p>Recent reports show that almost 50% of all murders stem from Domestic Violence and similar reports indicate a 20% increase in Child Abuse.  Children are being mercilessly abused and sexually exploited.<\/p>\n<p>While there are pockets of church sponsored family life projects in some quarters, a national programme with focus on the family and supported by a majority of our churches does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-three years into nationhood the Bahamian church remains divided, fragmented and isolated with most church leaders singing &#8220;you in your small corner and I in mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the 3,500 churches engage in religious tribalism, family members are killing each other, and children are being beaten, raped and buggered.<\/p>\n<p> A divided church has very little it can honestly say to a broken and divided community.<\/p>\n<p>A national family life program, supported by a large majority of our churches is necessary and imperative.<\/p>\n<p><small>By: Bishop Simeon B. Hall for The Nassau Guardian<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan would be to disband the Christian Council and get rid of the child-molesting pastors who set such a bad example for society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}