One fifth of children are not declared by parents
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SANTO DOMINGO.-A study on the state of Dominican children shows that 13 of every 100 children less than 14 years of age do not have birth certificates and among children less than four years old the figure is one out of five, or 20%.
The majority of children in this situation are children of adolescent mothers.
At the same time the study points out that of each 1000 persons less than 18 years old, 29 are affected by some type of handicap, the most frequent being related to speech, something that affects 23 of each 1000 children.
The study "Situation of children in the Dominican Republic, tendencies 1986-2006" was carried out by Francisco Caceres Urena and Antonio Morillo Perez for the Pro Familia Institute (Profamilia) under the auspices of the United nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and with the help of the National Office of Statistics( ONE).
The investigators say in their conclusions that the percentage of minors that have not been entered into the Civil Registry is on the increase.
They also say that 90 out of every 100 children and adolescence receive some kind of physical punishment, with spankings, use of a belt, switch or other objects, being the most frequent, while scolding is the most frequent verbal punishment.
Other data in the study talks about how 22 of every 1000 children have problems of retention that impedes them from understanding what is said and 11 of every 1000 suffer some sort of mental deficiency, while 6 per 1000 have visual problems, four have hearing problems and three have difficulty in hand and foot movements.
One indicator of the research refers to education and it says that 220,000 children were excluded from the public educational system.
The details indicate that five out of every 100 that should attend primary school were left out of school and 11 of every 100 were left out of secondary school.
The report makes emphasis of the fact that the household chief is increasingly the mother and that the paternal figure, considered vital in the life of children, is getting les all the time.
This is seen in the fact that in 2006, one in four children lives only with the mother, and in 1991 the figures was one in five.
The majority of children in this situation are children of adolescent mothers.
At the same time the study points out that of each 1000 persons less than 18 years old, 29 are affected by some type of handicap, the most frequent being related to speech, something that affects 23 of each 1000 children.
The study "Situation of children in the Dominican Republic, tendencies 1986-2006" was carried out by Francisco Caceres Urena and Antonio Morillo Perez for the Pro Familia Institute (Profamilia) under the auspices of the United nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and with the help of the National Office of Statistics( ONE).
The investigators say in their conclusions that the percentage of minors that have not been entered into the Civil Registry is on the increase.
They also say that 90 out of every 100 children and adolescence receive some kind of physical punishment, with spankings, use of a belt, switch or other objects, being the most frequent, while scolding is the most frequent verbal punishment.
Other data in the study talks about how 22 of every 1000 children have problems of retention that impedes them from understanding what is said and 11 of every 1000 suffer some sort of mental deficiency, while 6 per 1000 have visual problems, four have hearing problems and three have difficulty in hand and foot movements.
One indicator of the research refers to education and it says that 220,000 children were excluded from the public educational system.
The details indicate that five out of every 100 that should attend primary school were left out of school and 11 of every 100 were left out of secondary school.
The report makes emphasis of the fact that the household chief is increasingly the mother and that the paternal figure, considered vital in the life of children, is getting les all the time.
This is seen in the fact that in 2006, one in four children lives only with the mother, and in 1991 the figures was one in five.
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