This article is in conjunction with World Mental Health Day which falls on Oct 10 every year.
After having attended home-based online classes for months, Alina (not her real name) felt nervous at the thought of returning to school.
This 10-year-old girl, who lived here with her single father, not only had to cope with social anxiety but was also ashamed of the scars on her hands and legs as a result of the frequent beatings she endured from her father who had been under too much stress after he lost his job last year following the enforcement of the Movement Control Order
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 ― After having attended home-based online classes for months, Alina (not her real name) felt nervous at the thought of returning to school. This 10-year-old girl, who lived here with her single father, not only had to cope with social anxiety but was also ashamed of the scars.
Norton-Staal said the ‘Our Lives Online’ study conducted in Malaysia, involving 127 children also revealed that two in five children reported having bad experiences online they would not want to tell anyone. 123rf
KUALA LUMPUR: More than half of the participants, aged under 18 in a UN Children s Fund (Unicef) study, said they had met strangers in real life they initially met online.
Unicef Malaysia Head of Child Protection Sarah Norton-Staal said the ‘Our Lives Online’ study conducted in Malaysia, involving 127 children also revealed that two in five children reported having bad experiences online they would not want to tell anyone. This poses a lot of risks, among others (the survey reveals) that both boys and girls reported receiving sexual messages, images and videos from strangers on social media.
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