What we can do.

I have been reading & researching about a very very difficult subject. Child abuse.
It is a difficult subject for hundreds of different reasons. I think the worst & most difficult would be the fact that a lot of abused children are abused by people close to them.
As a parent myself I can understand the frustration that people go through when trying to raise a hyperactive toddler, let a lone 3 or more. I am aware of the frustration & I believe that it really caught me by surprise.
But I know that no form of frustration can ever be an excuse to harm your child. Counting to 10 or even to 20 is a very helpful tool out of a frustrating confrontation with your child.
Of course I am talkig about physical abuse because of the stress if being a parent or for whatever other reasons people do it.
But obviously there are other forms of abuse that are the hardest ones to talk about, and which are also in many cases done by people close to the children.
Sexual abuse is probably the most difficult form of abuse that there is to discuss. And that I think is one of the main reasons that kids are left in a situation of this kind of abuse, because adults that may have helped them chose to ignore it out of embarrassment or fear of confronting another adult with this kind of subject, especially if they are the suspects.
I think it very important to not leave any doubts, even if this means losing a friendship or exposing a family member. You can reduce the risk of making a mistake by informing yourself & educating yourself on the subject. If you know the signs & symptoms of child abuse you can act accordingly.
There is no point in spewing out accusations when you are not educated on the subject at least a little, because many abusers are people with alibis & excuses, they know how to manipulate people & how to hide their crime.
Crime, yes I said crime, because it is a terrible crime to hurt innocent, helpless children in any way, its a crime against humanity. Because our children are the humanity of the future.
I think that people who abuse kids don't value life & that is why they feel they can harm a helpless child without thinking of the consequences & without realizing what it makes them, a criminal, a pedophile ( in sexual abuse cases), a monster!

But I think that the people that turn a blind eye, or act like it isn't happening or that don't speak up, are just as guilty of the crime.
In lots of cases people just have a doubt, they don't know for sure, but that is when you must educate yourself and then do something about it if the symptoms comply with the case that you doubt about.
It is unacceptable to have pedophiles running free, doing as they please, receiving aid from each other, forming groups & associations, having their own newsletters, magazines & websites!
What are we doing to protect our children?? We don't need to be part of some organization to do this, all we need to do is speak up. for Christ sakes SPEAK UP!!!

Defend our children from those monsters, protect them from the brutality of the minds of these fiends. I know that many of them were victims of the same form of abuse when they were kids, but that does not make it right, it makes it doubly wrong.
I think that more education on the subject can save many precious lives.
Lives that will be ruined otherwise, because those types of experiences if you survive them affect your life forever. They scar you & unlike our visible scars, they hurt whenever they are remembered.

Lets not be part of the ignorant crowd who realizes too late that something could have been done, lets not turn a blind eye to the suffering of children, even though they aren't yours .
Lets inform ourselves & others, lets inform our children so they can defend themselves.
Lets be close to them always to protect them & make them feel secure enough to tell us anything.
Lets keep a watchful eye out for ALL the children; they are all innocent & helpless, they are all our responsibility.

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