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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The world\u2019s children are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, with marked increases in violence, abuse, child labour, lost schooling, and malnutrition, two Vatican studies said on Wednesday.<\/p>

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The studies, based on academic, scientific, United Nations data and other source material, were produced by the Vatican\u2019s development office and the Pontifical Academy for Life.<\/p>\n

\u201cReports of violence, abuse, and exploitation of children have sharply increased since the pandemic began. Poorer communities disproportionately bear these adversities,\u201d one of the studies said.<\/p>\n

They said that as of September, more than five million children were estimated to have lost a parent, custodial grandparent or secondary caregiver to the pandemic. This translated to a child losing a parent or caregiver every 12 seconds.<\/p>\n

The pandemic reversed an encouraging trend in poverty reduction, plunging 150 million more children into poverty and increasing the number of children in child labour to 160 million.<\/p>\n

Rising food insecurity led to between six and seven million new cases of acute malnutrition in children under five, translating to about 10,000 deaths a month in 2020, 80 percent of them in South Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

Child malnutrition was also increased by the loss of some 39 billion school meals, which even in some developed countries are the only good meal they receive.<\/p>\n

The rate of dropping out of school was increasing significantly in the global south and an estimated 10 million children worldwide may never return to school.<\/p>\n

Child marriages were increasing as the poorest of families sought to relieve financial pressures.<\/p>\n

The studies called for the equitable distribution of COVID vaccines, which Pope Francis has championed, more government spending on children, and keeping schools open as much as possible.<\/p>\n

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