Aizawl, Nov 15 : A high percentage of inmates, lodged in orphanages and children homes in Mizoram, actually have both parents revealed a study recently.
Aizawl-based NGO, Human Rights and Law Network, which conducted the study on problems of children in 27 orphanages and children homes found that 47.2 per cent of the inmates were having both the parents.
"While 42.6 per cent of the inmates of such homes had lost either their father or mother, only 10.1 per cent lost both the parents," said social workers who conducted the study.
The social worker added that many parents refused to look after their children dumped them in the orphanages, depriving them of the right to be raised as normal children in families.
She added that the figures show that many children whose fathers and mothers were still alive decided to tuck their children away in orphanages and other homes rather than raising them in their own homes.
The NGO also had conducted a study on child abuse and found that a very high number of children were raped or sexually abused by their near relatives and that many of such cases were hushed up.
The state child welfare committee (CWC) report also revealed that there were 127 reports of sexual abuse of children between September 2005 to October 2009, out of which 107 children had been sexually abused by adults. According to the findings, around 80-90 per cent of the victims were abused by their relatives.
Child labour was also rampant in Mizoram, according to the Child Right Index, 2011, released by an NGO called HAQ: Centre for Child Rights. The CRI revealed that child labour was highest in Mizoram as per population in the country.
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