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| THE REASON FOR THIS PAGE |
SOME SCARY STATISTICS |
| I am making this page to let the world out there know that something needs to be done about the child abuse that happens everyday of our lives. The statistics of child abuse are scary....and nothing seems to be getting done about it. I was an abused child. I am now 39 yrs. old and I still live with the memories of what was done to me. Why do parents do it?? Did you know that most of the abuse done to a child is done by the mother? How can a mother give birth to a child and then beat him or her? Or even worse kill that child? |
In 1996, over 3 million cases of child abuse were reported to Child Protective Services.
Over 47 out of 1000 children are victims.
Child abuse has increased 45% between 1987 and 1996.
In 1996 an estimated 1046 child abuse cases were congirmed by C.P.S. Since 1985, the rate of fatalities has increased by 20%.
Based on these numbers more than three children die each and every day.
More than 77% are under the age of five. |
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MY STORY |
| I can remember the first time my mother hit me. I was just a little girl. Maybe four yrs. old. I was pretending to smoke a cigarette, when she came in the room and "caught" me. It happened so many times over the yrs. that at times I think I forgot about them when something will happen to trigger a lost memory. Child abuse was never talked about in the 70's, but it happened. I only had two people that I could turn to, my Grandparents. They were good to me. I can remember a time when my Grandfather was going to have my mother arrested, but I talked him out of it. I was scared. I was afraid of what would happen to me when I had to go back home. I left home at the age of seventeen after yrs. of abuse. I couldn't take it anymore. The day I left was the day my mother tried to kill me. She beat me so bad that my Grandparents didn't know me when I walked up to their door. I had alot of black eyes and busted lips as a kid. I was a loner. Not that I didn't like people..I was scared of the questions that they might ask. The thing that hurts the most is that I have a brother and three sisters and she didn't do that to them. I can remember times when she said she hated me and wishes that she would have drowned me like a rat when I was a baby. I still live with the memories of all that. The physical abuse was bad, but it is the verbal abuse that I live with everyday. I can not stand to see a child abused. And, we as a nation need to do something about the children that are being abused. We can no longer sit back and let this happen. They are our future.....we need to help them.....before it's too late!! |
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