More than 130,000 child abuse cases were handled by child consultation centers across Japan in fiscal 2017, on the back of increasing reports of children being psychologically damaged by witnessing violence within their families, the health ministry's preliminary data showed Thursday.The figure rose 9.1 percent from a year earlier to 133,778, marking a 27th straight year of increase since comparable data became available in 1990.The ministry attributed the rising number of reports to increased awareness among the public that psychological mistreatment such as witnessing acts of domestic vio…READ FULL ARTICLE
