Aruba
Three quarters marriages ending in divorce
9 Jul, 2009, 14:18 (GMT -04:00)
ORANGE CITY - Of all marriages ending in Aruba closed 75 per cent in a divorce. That figure, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) yesterday announced the launch of the government project Bo sa unda bo ta yiu? (do you know where your child uithangt?).
With this project, the government wants to prevent young people derail. It focuses on parents who are more aware of the risks to be their offspring are, and how they can ensure that their child is well developed. The importance of education are underlined. The main objective of the project is the relationship between parent and child to improve, says Minister of Education, Social Affairs and Infrastructure, Marisol Lopez Tromp (MEP). Tractor in this whole Department of Social Affairs, but the project involved the majority of organizations, both from outside and within the government that young people do.
The CBS was yesterday again the statistics seen passing on the young, but other figures showing that the Aruban youth over the years more and more risk to derail. Thus, the likelihood that children in single-parent family growing up enormous, given that three quarters of the marriages on a separation prejudice. Two years ago showed that figure already alarming when the Common Court of Justice announced that Aruba is more segregated than in the whole of the Antilles. The exact figure of last year, CBS has not yet published. In 2007 it was 531 times married and there were 417 divorces. "Children who grow up in families whose father or mother lives somewhere else, are particularly vulnerable," said interim director Martijn Bar Stein of CBS.
Teenage pregnancies
Another major problem remains the high number of teenage pregnancies in Aruba, says Bar Stein. This is ten times as high as in the Netherlands (12.1 percent versus 1.1 percent). In comparison with the Netherlands Antilles (9 percent), the Aruban figure higher. Two Dutch students medicine research were to Aruba looking for critically ill newborn babies, however, came to an even higher figure than CBS. They calculate a percentage of 12.6, and are not the details of home deliveries included. In the CBS figure this is the case. The two students had no link between the high baby mortality rate in Aruba and the number of teenage pregnancies, but were a major concern. The younger the mother is, the more chance of complications during pregnancy and birth. It also takes the risk of a premature baby to.
Bar Stein yesterday expressed his concerns. Eleven percent of the Aruban teen mother and known figures that only 30 percent even after the birth to school. Moreover Vrijthoff less than half of young people safe. The likelihood that teenagers get pregnant, early school leaving and risk behaviors have been greatly, as did the authorities yesterday also appear. Some bright, the results from the Youth Lifestyle study showing that most young people, although something to answer, but it usually does not serious offenses, compared with Dutch adolescents. However, it appeared earlier in this study that relatively many young people suffering from mental problems.
Poverty
Another risk factor for youth is the increasing number of people around is not financially. Twenty percent of the poorest families make together for only 5 percent of national income. The increasing aging of the labor market - in 1960 comprised 40 percent of the population of young people between 0 and 14 years compared with 23.2 percent in 2000 - also the pressure on young people. Aruba can not afford that part of the youth to develop an unhealthy way, says Minister Tromp. Parents play a big role, but one major problem is lack of parental supervision because both parents must work. "The last time we are increasingly young people run away from home," says Tromp.
The government is now on the basis of house to house leaflets about drugs, sexuality, friendship, internet and other information for parents. Also, there are large billboards and posters for parents with a project to publish and in the buses running spots.
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