Children against violence: There is violence both at schools and at home (video)
"Adults like to call violence as bringing up and to say that they do that in order to bring them as good people," Mikayel Mikayelyan said today at a press conference ahead of the day before protecting children from violence. Mikayel and other children of the Children for Children initiative are school-aged children. They noted that violence was commonly used in schools as well. "In families, due to the lack of love, violence comes up. Violence is when a child begs money in the street. And it is also violence when adults decide children's future profession," said Mikayel. Milena Musayelyan is a memeber of the initiative who found that there were cases of violence at schools. "When two pupils answer the lesson the same way but get different marks, I think this is a psychological violence against children. It is also violence when a teacher forces a pupil to participate in an event when the pupil does not want to," said Milena. Members of the initiative think that the Government should take children's opinion into account before making decisions concerning them. CHildren should be asked to express their opinion on the issue. Artyom Ghazaryan,a member of the initiative, said that it was possible to reduce the cases of violence. "Children, seeing violence, are inclined to violence. And if parents do not use violence against children, it can decrease the number of violence, as there are many cases when the very peers use violence. In order to avoid the phenomenon we should work on reducing domestic violence." In response to our question, whether the work of psychologists in schools helped or not, Artyom Ghazaryan mentioned there were schools where there were no psychologists. And inspections should be carried out at schools not having psychologists. As in the whole world, November 19 is also celebrated in Armenia as a day of protecting children from violence.
