Child
Safety in the 21th Century
According
to the Federal Bureau of Investigations over 2 million children disappear every
year (XL Defense Team, 2012) most recently the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development’s Study on Early Childhood (NICHD), 2012) firmly
established the importance of quality care to the wellbeing of children, yet
the problems identified over 30 years ago, inadequate training and education
are still vexing today (Hertzberg et al, 2000; Keagan et al, 2008 &
Whitehook, 2003.
Current e estimates indicate that more than half of 12 million US
children under age six spend time in the regular care of someone other than a
parent in the typical week, and 85% of these by the time they reach
kindergarten (Guzman et al, 2009), these arraignments include formal and
informal care settings; community health can be enhanced as well as pediatric
patients safety through the utilization of relationship models in pediatric
health management.
Technology can serve to protect children through diverse modalities and
ensure that ill children are cared for while parents work according to prescriptive and that they remain safe in there
surrounding were adequate developmental requirements are met. One of these
modalities is including stranger danger into the children’s activities as well
as telephone defense skills and cyber bullying risk, redesigning and improving
codes and maintaining support systems to needy rural communities,
identification of protection gaps and
incorporating a collaborative relationship between child, siblings, care giver
, technology and parents is of utmost importance ,especially during natural
disasters and other emergencies children must have basic self protection skills
References
XL Defense Team (2011) Safe from Harm: MEC/LABS. LLC
Jacksonville, Fl USA
IOM (2012) The
Early Childhood and Education Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities. A workshop
Report. Institute of Medicine
