Raising Happy Children and Providing Safe Childhoods

This Reader aims to serve as a guide for parents, teachers and community members on how to prevent crime and violence by children. Parents, teachers, and community leaders can use these questions, suggestions to help them guide their thinking, planning, action, and create a more protective and caring environment for children in society. The Reader is divided into three parts wherein Part I is for parents and what they can to do to prevent violence and crime by children, followed by Part II and III for teachers and community members, respectively. Each part in this section briefly discusses few major problems that can push children on the wrong side of law, the early signs of risk, what can be done to strengthen protection or intervene to reduce risks.