MOST people turn away from bad news, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, but it is causing greater levels of sexual abuse and violence against women and children as lockdowns continue. We must ask so we can know how to act: why is there a growing level of violence, physical and sexual, against women and children among males in today's world?

The horrific number of sexual assaults, homicides, child sexual abuse and human trafficking of female children and intimate partner violence had reached epic proportions in recent years.