Conservative MP Nicky Morgan said teachers must also be educated, as they have a"very important role to play"."Kinaya" - whose name we have changed - lives in the UK.
It is often the child's mother who will undertake the breast ironing, which usually involves heating a stone or spoon on a flame then pressing, massaging or flattening the breast."You're not even allowed to cry out. If you do, you [are said to] have brought shame to your family, you are not a 'strong girl'."When her eldest turned 10, her mother proposed that she be breast ironed.
One woman told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she only realised breast ironing was not normal when she discovered her body looked different to her classmates during a PE class at her UK school, which led her to become distressed. Kiri Tunks, joint president of the National Education Union, is now calling for school staff - and in particular PE teachers - to be taught how to notice the signs.as part of compulsory relationships and sex education classes in secondary schools.
Those working with girls and young women should also be taught to recognise that breast ironing is taking place in the UK, she continued, and to be able to"advise the young person on what action they need to take".One woman,"Simone", told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she was breast ironed aged 13 when her mum found out that she was gay.
Now what has changed that this needs adding to the curriculum?
I'm in my mid 60s .. and as part of my age related arrogance I thought I'd heard it all .. but I had to read that headline twice and check the date wasn't April 1st. What the hell ☹️
Out of control men blame girls and women for their own criminal behavior. These horrific practices are done to females because men can't control their urges. It's not just Africa. Think of plural marriages to little girls so old pedophiles can rape them. And human trafficking.
Teachers and GPS need to be educated and parents need to be prosecuted. Don't make it about the girls. Telling kids about this awful practice at school? Kids won't report parents and this is a practice within specific community. Target them and stop with the PC nonsense. Same FGM
When an we teach the essentials of the national curriculum?
Ffs what next. Put them in jail, who in the right mind in the 21st century does this 😖😣
They do it to stop male attraction, I’m assuming from that as the practise originates in Africa they mean historically African males lack self control around young females.....well I’m shocked.
FGM and Breast Ironing....are we importing culturally backward and basically stupid immigrants?
Idea! Why not have nut or ball ironing. Would certainly stop a lot of problems later. Or male mutilation, you know, just a little off the top.
Cultural enrichment at its finest.
Like FGM the only way is to prosecute the parents, this is child abuse! But we won’t! We are a disgrace as a nation, when we cannot protect the most vulnerable, sorry won’t protect the most vulnerable.
Ffs has this Country outlawed parenting
What a ridiculous thing to do, physical beauty doesn't matter that's the lesson, parents should have taught.
Why, where has this problem sprang up from? Never heard of it.
Instead of teaching it in schools why don't we report families that practice this to the social services, it's child abuse
Fantastic barbarity to match FGM, multiculturalism LOL
Weird foreign ritual.... so much for integration
Whilst we adjust and waste time on all these new issues from other cultures, our children miss out on real education, not to mention the diversity and relationship they want to also teach about.
And we wonder why our country is falling apart. Why do we allow backward people into our country in the first place.
The giddy thrills that multiculturalism has brought us.
Omg! What on earth? That’s absolutely shocking!😢😢😢
Anything but EDUCATION!
All cultures are equal and beautiful and should be welcomed with open arms to replace the native population, right guys?
Is this an actual thing? Breast Ironing sounds Incredibly Dangerous and probably The Most Ridiculous thing I have Ever heard. What Idiots think these things up?
What idiot decided to iron their breasts anyway? They are so nice to play with so why spoil them?
Good God.
Cue the standard bigoted, racist, and phobic statements. 🙄
I call child abuse. This & female circumcision is part of the horror that uneducated parents, especially from Africa, unleash on their children.... Raising sexually suppressed girls with terrible body image. Thank God we are talking abt it now
This is how backward these people are !!!
Fear pschyosis n Taboo interwovned in an Chaotic society in Many African nation made such Henious , barabric Painstaking Process on approach, which is sheer Nuisance need awarness Drive enmass.
Lol wtf.
My wife has enough to do as a teacher, endless planning, marking, meetings etc, without having to look for another country's cultural aberrations. Unions should be trying to reduce workload, not adding to it.
Whilst your all rightly venting anger against barbaric practices against young girls. Not a peep about mutilation of infant male genitals?
Not sure that anything extra is needed, it is out and out child abuse and thus already illegal.
This practice is extremely rare, and to make it a national issue is not the right way to deal with it. It only gives the kind of responses you wanted to solicit (see below) and it does nothing positive.
I thought we were supposed to embrace diversity. I hope you are not admitting that some cultures have abhorrent traditions which have no place in our society.
What a tragic reality where they believe they have to do his to avoid sexual attention from adults to their children. Still, is as unacceptable as FGM and must be stopped!
Just when you thought humanity had reached rock bottom...
Wtf! Can life get any more barbaric!
Anyone who attacks and abuses children in this manner should be put in jail and have their children taken away from them. It’s serious physical assault with permanent damage (and socially/psychologically damaging too). Criminal and disgraceful.
Are these people nuts?
Progressive
Food god what is happening to this country 😤💔
WHO does this?
“There is no specific offence for breast ironing, but the Home Office described it as a form of child abuse and said it should be prosecuted under general assault laws.” WHAT!? Surely the offence is clear: Serious and disfiguring physical assault and trauma to a child.
Why is it always the schools that need to act? Acts like this should be against the law & parents coming to this country & subjecting their daughters to this backward practice know they will receive a prison sentence. Learn it’s the 21st century & it’s the UK not Africa
what a mad fucking world we live in
Yet another wonderful cultural practice brought to the UK in the name of diversity.
Breast ironing and FGM. When one mass-imports the 3rd world, one can expect barbaric 3rd world practises.
The disorientation of these times, know no bounds 🥺
Welcome to the Uk 2019!
This is nuts? When did the world go mad?!?!?! I'm 55 - never had any of this insanity when I was growing up. What's causing it? Where are these ideas coming from?
What’s wrong with these people? FGM, Breast Ironing, this is not acceptable in Western Civilisation.
Just when you thought you had heard it all. Savage, shocking and disgusting.
😲😲😲OMG!!!
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