The LOPIVI has allowed, for the first time, the availability of a state regulatory framework that guarantees the rights of children and adolescents against any form of violence, ensuring their free and full development and establishing comprehensive protection measures that include, in addition to detection, attention and recovery, a strong component of awareness and prevention to definitively eradicate violence against children and adolescents.
Therefore, the Strategy for the Eradication of Violence against Children and Adolescents (EEVIA), approved on November 15, 2022, reflects the high level of commitment of all levels of administration to ensure compliance and exercise of the human rights of children to a life free of violence, allowing them to develop their full potential and have a happy childhood and adolescence.
The violence inflicted on people at these stages of life is a widespread problem, of large proportions and very serious effects. Despite its prevalence, it sometimes goes unnoticed, being overlooked and even intentionally concealed.
To this end, the Strategic Area 1 of EEVIA, aimed at guaranteeing knowledge of the reality of violence against children and adolescents, necessary to develop effective and adapted action strategies, includes measures such as carrying out periodic macro-surveys on the prevalence of violence against children and adolescents and conducting reference studies on this subject as a prerequisite for any strategic planning process.
Thus, it was essential to have a rigorous analysis to increase knowledge about this phenomenon, in order to have tools to prevent and detect the different manifestations of violence against children and adolescents and the serious consequences they can have both in the short and long term, and thereby design public policies that can contribute to its prevention and eradication.
Within this framework, the study Prevalence of violence against children and adolescents in Spain has been carried out, with an Executive Summary prepared to facilitate its understanding. The general objective of the study is to understand the prevalence of violence against children and adolescents through the self-declared memory of young adults (currently aged 18 to 30), analyzing the settings in which it occurs, the perpetrators, the help that was sought, if any, and the sociodemographic characterization of those who suffer it.
Automatically translated with OpenAI from Spanish