ECO: children who are murdered

I. Issue and reason

Our issue is children who are murdered. We chose this topic because the number of children who are murdered has been increasing year by year. Moreover, we thought we would be anxious about that fact if we had children.

II. Causes

1) First, the age of people committing crimes has been younger lately. They target on weaker people, so the age of victims has been younger too.

2) Second, the number of otaku (“geeks”) has been increasing and they can’t make contact with their own generation, so they try to make contact with the younger generation.

3) Last, now many children go to cram school at night. Because some children have to go to school alone at night, they are in danger.

III. Solutions

We have two solutions to solve this problem.

1) First, the local residents should cooperate with each other and do activities such as patrol, etc. to protect the children. But recently the relationship between people who live near each other is not so strong. Therefore, this solution doesn’t seem so effective, so we quoted another solution from the Cabinet Office:

2) It’s called “The promise of good child.” In detail, it said to children “Don’t play alone,” “Never go somewhere with someone you don’t know,” and “Scream for help when someone tries to take you.” These ideas are a good solution if the relationship between parents and child(ren) is good. So, we have to strive to make a good family relationship. This is our final solution.