Clinical therapist/ trauma specialist and CEO of the Centre for Human Development, Hanif E Benjamin, said recently: “The country has become a very cold and uncaring one… We are not taking charge in protecting our children, the most vulnerable. We are not treating the children like our future… we need to say to ourselves we are the responsible ones, our children cannot protect themselves, they are not just a mother’s or a father’s responsibility, but a society’s responsibility…there are families in crisis and there is no proper support system in place” (Newsday, June 20).
