The Voices of Children and Young People

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Reasons for Contact in Asia-Pacific Contacts with Known Reasons (in %) 100% 40 15 5 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 111 0% 0% 0% 3% Grand Total 180,201 contacts 24% 28% 48% 747,310 100% 14 9 3 5 7 9 7 7 8 8 6 5 2 4 2 207,854 contacts 2 11 13 19 6 8 10 3 6 5 5 4 5 4 3 3 2 1 111 44
Child helplines in Asia-Pacific documented nearly 750,000 contacts with known reasons in 2014, and they reported the sex of the child or young person who contacted them in just over one-half of those cases. Among children and young people who contacted child helplines and whose sex is known, girls made 54% of contacts with known reasons. Child helplines reported a large share of contacts as requests for information about the helpline or feedback on assistance received. The main more specific concern that prompted children and young people to contact child helplines in Asia was psychosocial and mental health (see the introductory chapter for a more detailed presentation), which triggered 15% of all contacts with known reasons. Another 10% of contacts were due to peer relationships or family relationships. The sex of the child or young person who needed child helplines’ assistance with those issues is not known in a large share of cases, but where it is known, girls are much more strongly represented than boys. Abuse and violence was also a prominent reason for children and young people to seek assistance, with girls having made more than one-half of all contacts, or nearly two-thirds of contacts for which the sex is known. Spotlight on Family Relationships Having been the main reason for about five in 100 contacts with child helplines, family relationships are an important area of concern for children and young people in Asia-Pacific. The majority of contacts in this category were not further specified by child helplines, but among the more specific reasons for concern the parent/child relationship was the one that prompted the highest number of contacts, and three-quarters of them were made by girls. 4% 1% 8% 1% 3% 21% 58% 3% Looking further at differences between the concerns that boys and girls have reveals that girls are also almost twice as likely as boys to contact child helplines because of the experience of discrimination and cyberbullying. The shares of those problems within all reasons for contacting a child helpline are low, but this difference between the sexes is certainly relevant for designing policy interventions. A yet more striking difference between the sexes exists with regard to harmful traditional practices, which were the reason for almost 3,000 contacts with child helplines in Asia-Pacific. More than eight in ten of those contacts were made by girls, which points to the continued existence of gender based violence. Boys were significantly more likely to contact child helplines regarding sexuality and sexual awareness. In addition, they made two-thirds of contacts about commercial exploitation. Homelesness is another reason for contact that is notably more frequent among boys who seek child helplines’ support than among girls. Problems because parents were in conflict, divorced or separated were the next most frequent concern, and contacts are evenly distributed among boys and girls. Bereavement related to family relationships was behind nearly 1,700 contacts, and more than three-quarters of them were made by girls. Contacts regarding parents with addiction or mental health problems were also relatively frequent, and in this case boys made slightly more contacts than girls. 45
Page 1 and 2: Child Helpline Data 2014 The Voices
Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents 4 Welcome Message
Page 5 and 6: Welcome Messages The Voices of Chil
Page 7 and 8: Global Highlights Over 1 in 12 of a
Page 9 and 10: Introduction There Is a Child Behin
Page 11 and 12: Psychosocial and Mental Health: One
Page 13 and 14: Children and Young People’s Needs
Page 15 and 16: Regional Differences Figure 3: Spec
Page 17 and 18: Sex Matters to Children and Young P
Page 19 and 20: Regional Differences Even though ch
Page 21 and 22: Children and Young People Talk abou
Page 23 and 24: Regional Differences Globally, near
Page 25 and 26: How Child Helplines Support Childre
Page 27 and 28: Conclusions and Recommendations Hun
Page 29 and 30: Child helplines have demonstrated t
Page 31 and 32: Communication Methods Age Distribut
Page 33 and 34: Reasons for Contact at the Global L
Page 35 and 36: Regional Overview 1,749,817 contact
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Page 41 and 42: The most common concern among child
Page 43: Regional Overview 5,497,692 contact
Page 49 and 50: Child helpline data on known reason
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Page 57 and 58: Reasons for Contact in Bolivia Cont
Page 59 and 60: Reasons for Contact in Ethiopia Con
Page 61 and 62: Reasons for Contact in Nicaragua Co
Page 63 and 64: Reasons for Contact in Sierra Leone
Page 65 and 66: Reasons for Contact in Zambia Conta
Page 67 and 68: Worldwide, since 2003, over 300 mil

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