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September 6th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Thousands of children are on anti-depressants as the number of kids in care skyrockets, according to a report to be released today. Picture: Thinkstock
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FAMILIES are in crisis with the number of children in care and teenage self-harm attempts almost doubling in a decade.
The 117-page “For Kids’ Sake” report authored by the architect of the Howard government’s family law reforms, Sydney University professor Patrick Parkinson, also finds thousand of children are using anti-depressants.
The report, which has compiled existing research, was commissioned by the Australian Christian Lobby and paid for by the Vos Foundation.
It blames the breakdown of traditional families for an alarming rise in social problems, and comes as Labor braces for a party brawl over gay marriage.
The report, which will be launched by opposition families spokesman Kevin Andrews in Canberra today, calls for a taxpayer-funded Families Commission that would run relationship counselling and child rearing education programs and a national families hotline.
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Professor Parkinson says the situation facing children is “deteriorating at an extraordinarily rapid pace”. “If there is one major demographic change in western societies that can be linked to a large range of adverse consequences for many children and young people, it is the growth in the numbers of children who experience life in a family other than living with their two biological parents, at some point before the age of 16,” the report says.
Mr Andrews said the decline in marriage, the increase in children born out of wedlock, the increasing divorce rate and the increase in single parents and families where both parents work are trends that need to be reviewed.
“How we support marriage then, as the protective institution of family, particularly the welfare of children, is of profound importance,” he said.
The report says the “canary in the coalmine” is data showing that between 1998-99 and 2009-10 the number of children in out-of-home care doubled from 15,674 to 35,895. Other signs of social breakdown include the number of women aged 15-24 hospitalised for acute alcohol intoxication leaping from 46 per 100,000 in 1998-99 to 99 per 100,000 in 2005-06.
There was a fourfold increase in chlamydia infections among those aged 10 to 14 in the last decade and a rise from 28 to 38 per cent in girls reporting unwanted sex between 2002 and 2008.
One in four people aged 16-24 has a mental disorder and 6500 children are using anti-depressants.
There was a 66 per cent increase in 12 to 14-year-olds being hospitalised as a result of self-harm between 1996 and 2006. There was a 90 per cent rise in the hospitalisation of 15 to 17-year-old girls for self-harm.
The report calls for charitable trusts to be set up in each council area staffed by volunteers to run family support programs so the community can take responsibility for repairing the damage.
“As a society, we have become too dependent on governments as the source of remedies for social problems,” Professor Parkinson says. “The goal needs to be to mainstream relationship education programs so that they are readily available to people throughout the community and seen as something that anyone and everyone should do, engaging in different courses at different stages of the life journey.”
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