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The time for a child mental health revolution is now

The time for a child mental health revolution is now

Insider

By Benjamin Perks, Zeinab Hijazi

“Tell my wife I love her.” The last words spoken by an Italian pensioner isolated in the ICU early in the COVID-19 pandemic echo the anguish and loss of families and children the world over. With global fatalities surpassing the one million mark and total cases nearing 36 million, we are living through the biggest shared… Read more →←
Fighting online abuse of children in Montenegro

Fighting online abuse of children in Montenegro

Big picture

By Benjamin Perks

Story also available in: العربية Français
It’s hard to think of a crime whose victims are more faceless and vulnerable than victims of child sexual abuse. In most middle and low income countries, the subject of child sexual abuse remains largely taboo, without a social imperative to report suspicion of the crime within the community and with no ready help for children. While… Read more →←
Equity, poverty and love

Equity, poverty and love

Insider

By Benjamin Perks

“…….seeking but a moment’s rest among the long-forgotten haunts of childhood, and the resorts of yesterday; and dimly finding fear and horror everywhere….” –Charles Dickens  Martin Chuzzlewit  London,1843 Everyone knows poverty drives inequity. Here in Montenegro one of the ways we address this is by supporting… Read more →←

Adolescence — a second chance for vulnerable teenagers

Experts speak

By Benjamin Perks

As you read this, a teen somewhere is making a decision they may regret for the rest of their lives, one with high costs for themselves, their families and their communities. Joining a gang or a terrorist organization or committing a serious crime. Every teen everywhere faces a turbulent transition to adulthood: the rapid development of… Read more →←
Why we need to invest in early childhood in Montenegro

Why we need to invest in early childhood in Montenegro

Experts speak

By Benjamin Perks

Anyone who has been anywhere near a three-year-old recently will attest to their inexhaustible curiosity. They ask as many as 100 questions an hour – and around about the age of three, those questions switch from “what and where” to “how and why” questions – in a search for meaning in the world around them. Early childhood is… Read more →←
A three-month-old baby lies in a crib at a hospital in Ukraine. She was abandoned by her mother in the maternity ward.
Why state care should not mean more childhood adversity

Why state care should not mean more childhood adversity

Insider

By Benjamin Perks

For most mothers, the first embrace and skin-on-skin contact with her newborn, moments after delivery, is one of the most precious and magical moments in the journey of parenthood. But sometimes, perhaps because of family breakdown, addiction or perceptions about a disability, a mother turns away from her baby and abandons him or her at… Read more →←

Stopping childhood adversity from becoming a life sentence

Impact Insider

By Benjamin Perks

Even the most hard-nosed economist will now concede investment in good early childhood has the biggest return on public investment. But what about a reverse argument that failure to invest in prevention of bad early childhood experience is the most costly oversight a government can make? This is the subject of my recent TedX talk in… Read more →←
Benjamin Perks

Head of Campaigns and Advocacy, UNICEF.
On twitter: @BenjaminPerks

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