{"id":182592,"date":"2024-10-15T18:18:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-divergent-views-on-child-well-being-invite-attention-in-botswana\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T18:18:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:18:22","slug":"botswana-divergent-views-on-child-well-being-invite-attention-in-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-divergent-views-on-child-well-being-invite-attention-in-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Divergent Views On Child Well-Being Invite Attention in Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Almost half of citizens say children are often subjected to abuse and neglect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Half (51%) of Batswana say the use of physical force to discipline children is &#8220;sometimes&#8221; or &#8220;always&#8221; justified, while 49% reject it as &#8220;never justified.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Opposition to corporal punishment has almost doubled since 2017 (26%).<\/li>\n<li>Half (50%) of Batswana say adults in their community use physical force to discipline children &#8220;somewhat frequently&#8221; (31%) or &#8220;very frequently&#8221; (19%).<\/li>\n<li>Close to half (48%) of Batswana&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410150013.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of citizens say children are often subjected to abuse and neglect. Key findings Half (51%) of Batswana say the use of physical force to discipline children is &#8220;sometimes&#8221; or &#8220;always&#8221; justified, while 49% reject it as &#8220;never justified.&#8221; Opposition to corporal punishment has almost doubled since 2017 (26%). Half (50%) of Batswana say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,9664,4718,2462,8438,22139,23270,257,254,14742,19768],"class_list":["post-182592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attention","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-child","tag-divergent","tag-invite","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-views","tag-wellbeing"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}