Psychological and pedagogical specialists have collectively stressed the importance of unifying both family and civil society institutions’ efforts to protect children, by fulfilling their basic needs and surrounding them with security and safety, acquainting them with their friends and communicating with schools, and monitoring their nannies closely when they leave their kids alone with them, and educating mothers on how to handle their children and care for them.
They said that the absence of the role of the family, their high-handedness and lack of monitoring, creates a child with vindictive tendencies and no regard for the law. They see that a parent’s lenient upbringing can cause the child to be careless and follow friends who are a bad influence. Overindulgence or excessive cruelty may make the child careless and be the cause of not developing social skills within their peer groups.
They considered the efforts of Abu Dhabi Police in encouraging awareness in families and civil society associations to be a step that helps to plant the seeds of good behavior in young people, so that they follow the right path and stay away from bad company.
They confirmed the integrative role that starts with the household and ends with the different state institutions. On the other hand, Brigadier Najim Abdullah Al Hosani, Director of the Social Support Centers Department of Abu Dhabi Police, says: “The world is witnessing fast changes in the areas of education, civilization and technology. Both individuals and associations are responsible of keeping up with these changes”. He added: “The UAE is a pioneer and a leader in providing support to all segments of society to help individuals to live in a family-oriented, interconnected environment and a healthy social atmosphere, based on compassion, harmony and mercy, in a way that provides the community with positive values that help to protect it and keep it away from delinquency, and drifting towards crime.”
He said that the conference that was organized by Abu Dhabi Police recently under the slogan “The Family…Prevention and Protection”, embodies its role and care in motherhood and childhood, as they are considered to be some of the key pillars of society. He said that supporting them is the best investment that brings guaranteed benefits to individuals and society and provides the highest standards of security and protection for them.
A healthy environment
Dr. Maha Ahmed Abdel Halim, a psychologist, spoke about the role of the family in child protection and doing so by fulfilling their basic needs, like making them feeling safe and secure, which provides a healthy environment that children can use to protect themselves and to know their rights and obligations. She added that when the roles are integrated, the child can gain new skills that support their position and help to protect them from bad behavior that will hold them accountable.
She attributed the reasons that lead children into crime; the lack of the integrated role of the family, lack of supervision and follow up, lack of stimulation with reward and punishment for the child, and the diversity of upbringing methods. She believes that a dominant family will raise a vindictive child, that does not abide by the laws, while a lenient family can raise a careless child, which makes it easier for them to associate with bad company, and fall into crime.
Educational Awareness
Milan Sharif, the legal researcher from the Law Respect Culture Bureau at the General Secretariat of the Office of H.H Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, discussed the importance of parents’ educationa
