In this summative report from Young Lives, an international study of childhood poverty, authors Kirrily Pells and Virginia Morrow highlight the study’s key findings on violence affecting children, exploring what children say about violence, how it affects them, and the key themes that emerge from a systematic analysis of the children’s accounts from study countries of Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. This report was commissioned as part of the Ending Violence in Childhood: Global Report 2017 and is also available as a Know Violence in Childhood publication.
Summary of the findings:
- Violence is a part of everyday life for many children at home, school, in the community and while working.
- Violence was more likely to be reported within the home, than inflicted by strangers.
- Despite formal prohibition, corporal punishment is common within schools in the four countries. This shapes cultures of violence within schools.
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