Child Abuse

Child Abuse: A Continuous Series Pretend for one moment that you are no longer yourself. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cold winter night and your parents have opted to attend a party, which you are not allowed at. “It will be fine,” they say. Although you already know …

…personally affecting them, then it is not that big of a deal. Fortunately, we have had some powerful people take a stand on this issue. In 1982 President Ronald Reagan declared by Presidential Proclamation, April as child abuse awareness month. Although this, and many other organizations do help to educate as well as help prevent ! child abuse, the only real cure, as scary as it may sound lies solely in the hands of mankind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**