If anyone knows me very well then they know I am a huge advocate for decreasing child abuse at all levels. I cannot comprehend what makes an adult hurt a helpless child. Are we so weak and insecure that we find something that is so fragile to take our anger out on that it actually makes us feel better? Or in control? Or powerful? Or sexually fulfilled? Why is it that so many children are abused in the United States. Every year 3 million child abuse cases are reported which involve more than 6 million children (each report can include multiple children). And between 4 to 6 children die each day from this abuse and/or neglect. I found this information on the following website: http://www.childhelp.org/pages/statistics/.
Why does this happen and why isn't there an outcry against all this emotional, verbal, physical and sexual abuse? I think so many of these kids that are being abused aren't getting the help they need and grow into angry adults because no one was in their home to protect them. And then they become repeat offenders, either against their own children or other people's children. Anyone who is reading this blog is probably saying, "well of course", but then why aren't we trying to stop it? Isn't this the true problem in our society that we don't protect our young? Society loves to blame individuals that live a different life style, like being homosexual, and that they are the root cause of demoralizing our nation but that is crap! It is how our children are being treated and then what they grow up into.
We should be looking at how do we stop repeat offenders who were abused as children. How do we educate them and help them not harm other children? Doesn't this make sense? It seems so obvious to me.
So if you look at the above statistics, which are alarming and look back at my previous blog where I stated that there are 1.2 million abortions per year in the United States, does it make you think? If these 1.2 million children were born each year who were unwanted to begin with, would this even make our child abuse cases rise even further? Would even more children suffer from neglect and abuse and possible die from this abuse? I think we better solve the first problem of abuse before we try to bring even more children into this crazy messed up world we live in.
So this brings me to my next question. Why is birth control such a big issue when child abuse at all levels is out of control in our country? Is abortion of a fetus more important than the health and welfare and life of a child who has already been born?
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