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04.01.04, 18:07
40 % zyje w biedzie , 30 % ponizej minimum statystycznej biedoty i tylko 30 %
moze powiedziec ze sa szczesliwe .
Komisja podkresla rozpaczliwa sytuacje dzieci i mlodziezy oraz poglebiajacy
sie kryzys w ostatnich latach .
Statystyka chorob spolecznych sie pogarsza , alkoholizm , narkomania ,
przemoc , ponizanie i exploatacja w/w rosnie w zastraszajacym tempie ,...
Przyszlosc wiekszosci dzieci w Izraelu nie tylko nie wyglada otymistycznie ,
polowa dzieci poprostu nie ma przyszlosci jesli nie zaradzi sie dzisiejszemu
trendowi ,... Machanie szabelka kosztuje ,... Rachunek za dzisiejsza polityke
trzeba bedzie zaplacic slono w przyszlosci .
Uklony
Report finds 40% of kids are poor, delinquent; only 30% are `happy'
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By Jonathan Lis
Nearly half of Israel's children (40 percent) live in poverty, squalor and
delinquency and another 30 percent could slip into a similar fate. Only 30
percent could be said to have a "happy" childhood, Dr. Yitzhak Kadman,
director of the National Council for the Child, said yesterday.
The council's statistical yearbook paints a grim picture of childhood and
youth in Israel, showing an increase over recent years in the number of poor
children, children addicted to drugs and alcohol, and victims of violence and
abuse.
"Children in Israel 2003," compiled by Drl Asher Ben Arye, Yafa Zionit and
Galit Krijack, sees a children's society that has become polarized and
ruptured.
In 2002 close to a third of Israel's children (29.6 percent) were below the
poverty line. The number of children, including those in East Jerusalem, was
656,000. Despite fluctuations in the percentage of poor children through the
`90s, there was a clear rise in the number living in poverty.
More than half (54.4 percent) of the non-Jewish children live below the
poverty line. This is 2.5 times higher than the percentage of Jewish children
below the poverty line (20.4 percent).
The higher the social and economic standard of a town or community, the fewer
children live there. In the poorest communities children are 60 percent of
the population, compared to just 22 percent in wealthier ones.
In Bnei Brak 50.6 percent of the children are poor; in Jerusalem 38.3 percent
are poor (not including East Jerusalem), and in Ashdod 33.3 percent are below
the poverty line.
By contrast, in Ramat Gan and Rishon Lezion, children below the poverty line
are little more than 9 percent.
The number of children living on income supplement has risen 220 percent
since 1995. More than 300,000 children live in families living on income
supplement from the NII (National Insurance Institute).
The report reveals a startling rise in crime among minors and young victims
of violence and assault. Between 1990 and 2002, the number of cases reaching
the Youth Court rose by 50.1 percent from 6,655 to 10,021.
Since 1995 the number of minors suspected of offenses increased from 8.4
percent to 8.8 percent in 2002, and 34,000 minors were suspected of criminal
offenses, about half of them involving violence.
New immigrant teenagers are 12.9 percent of the population, but 24.1 of
minors suspected of criminality are new immigrants, whose numbers have
tripled since 1993. Most of the teenagers involved are aged 12-15.
Of the suspected cases opened on minors, 41.3 percent are for non-Jewish
youth, and more than 90 percent of these were for security offenses. Police
received reports of 2,887 cited for violence in educational institutions in
the past year.
Jews made up 68 percent of children born in Israel at the end of 2002. In
2003, 70 percent of the children in Israel were Jewish, compared to 75
percent in 1995.
Israeli society is growing older, the report says. At the end of 2002 the
state's 2,219,200 children were 33.5 percent of the population, compared to
39.2 percent in 1970. The average number of children per family has dwindled
consistently since 1980 from 2.7 to 2.3 children in 2002, and the number of
single-child families has doubled.
Some 141,737 of the children living in Israel do not have full Israeli
citizenship - 71 percent live in East Jerusalem, 29 percent are children of
legal foreign workers in Israel, children of immigrants of unclear status,
and children from mixed marriages of Israeli Arabs and Palestinians.
"Israeli society is deluding itself if it thinks it can give up 40 percent of
its children who are the citizens of its future," Kadman said yesterday, as
he presented the yearbook to the president.
"There is no chance Israeli society will be able to exist in 20 years,
standing on the spindly legs of 30 percent of its children. This criminal
negligence of a considerable portion of Israel's children who are living in
poverty, sickness and neglect is going to cost the state dearly in every
way," he said.