Furthermore, 16.2% of young people questioned say they are faced with material deprivations, 25.7% to deprivation of access to knowledge. 44.4% consider themselves deprived of sporting activities and 66.7% of cultural activities. Deprivations which generate “a profound feeling of exclusion”, notes the investigation.
Concerning the violence. 31.1% of children and adolescents surveyed have already experienced teasing, insults or verbal violence. And 30% have already been physically injured, hit or suffered unwanted touching by other children (13.1% by adults). Finally, 11% say they have been confronted with forms of social rejection, marked by a denial of recognition and a feeling of not counting for society.
Unsurprisingly, the children most affected are those accommodated outside their family home, those living in city policy neighborhoods or those who live in a single-parent family.
Worrying figures that push Adeline Hazan, president of Unicef France, to sound the alarm “It is urgent to take stock of the deprivations these children and young people suffer. Their exclusion is not only due to material shortages: it is also the consequence of insufficient access to opportunities for development cultural and social, as well as the lack of recognition of which they are victims. »
