the ooh Youth protection state councilor Michael Lindner (SPÖ) and child and youth advocate Christine Winkler-Kirchberger chose Friday, the start of “16 days against violence against women”, as the presentation day, because “violence against women” has a history. “Every fourth child in Austria is confronted with some form of violence,” Winkler-Kirchberger refers to assumptions. In the pandemic, things had “become quieter” about this topic, and children and young people had “been forgotten,” said Lindner. Not only psychological problems due to a lack of social contacts in the lockdowns but also domestic violence have increased. This is now noticeable in the inflow to the aid and advisory facilities.
If you use the Spectra survey, 61 percent of Upper Austrians state that parents were often overwhelmed and irritable during the pandemic. 41 percent, on the other hand, thought that conflicts often degenerated into domestic violence. Compared to the 2019 study “Ban of violence in education” from 2019, Peter Bruckmüller from Spectra finds it “quite worrying” that the feeling of “receiving available help for raising children has decreased by ten percentage points” to 64 percent.
Basically, however, one fifth of Upper Austrians believe that their own upbringing methods would not concern anyone else. A “healthy waddle” hasn’t hurt anyone either, as many as 14 percent say.
Spectra interviewed 800 people in Upper Austria over the age of 18 on behalf of the child and youth ombudsman’s office in the summer. After 2009, 2014 and 2019, it was the fourth survey on the topic of “bans on violence in education”.
Source: Nachrichten
