LOPIVI has enabled, for the first time, the availability of a state regulatory framework that guarantees the rights of children and adolescents against any type of violence, ensuring their free and full development and establishing comprehensive protection measures that include, in addition to detection, care 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 degree of commitment from all levels of the administration to guarantee the fulfillment 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 exerted on people in these stages of life is a widespread problem of large proportions and very serious effects. Despite its prevalence, it sometimes goes unnoticed, can be overlooked and even intentionally concealed.
To this end, Strategic Area 1 of the EEVIA, whose objective is to ensure knowledge of the reality of violence against children and adolescents, necessary for developing effective and adapted action strategies, includes measures such as periodic macro-surveys on the prevalence of violence against children and adolescents and the performance of reference studies on this as a prerequisite for any strategic planning process.
Thus, it became essential to have a rigorous analysis to increase knowledge about this phenomenon, in order to have tools to prevent and detect the various 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.
In this context, the study Prevalence of violence against children and adolescents in Spain has been carried out, with an Executive summary prepared to facilitate understanding. The overall objective of the study is to know the prevalence of violence against children and adolescents through the self-reported recall of young adults (currently between 18 and 30 years old), analyzing the areas where it occurs, the perpetrators who exert it, the help requested, if any, and the sociodemographic characterization of those who suffer it.
Automatically translated with OpenAI from Spanish