TY - JOUR AU - Sidebotham, Peter AB - Child Abuse Review Vol. 25: 405–409 (2016) Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/car.2462 Editorial Peter Sidebotham* Imagine a world where each child has the right to live in a happy family that is full of hope, where children can play in clean playgrounds, where no child is beaten or hit with a piece of wood, belt or hanger, or is cursed, pinched, slapped, or made to kneel on mung beans. That was the dream of a non-violent and non- discriminatory family and community expressed by a group of street youth in Manila (Wartenweiler and Mansukhani, 2016, online Supporting Information). Such a dream is something that we strive for in our work to combat child maltreatment worldwide. It is not something that will be easily achieved, but we need to do all that we can to promote it through education, family support and early intervention, services for abused children, legislation and research. th It is fitting, therefore, that our final issue in the 25 anniversary volume of Child ‘A global perspective Abuse Review should focus on research from different countries, bringing a on different aspects global perspective on different aspects of safeguarding children. Legislation is an important TI - Kneeling on Mung Beans JF - Child Abuse Review DO - 10.1002/car.2462 DA - 2016-11-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/kneeling-on-mung-beans-jX8mo34jbj SP - 405 EP - 409 VL - 25 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -