When Lies Come to Light....
As you know, I have been following up on the story of Baby Keegan. In my last entry, I wanted to talk about breaking the cycle of abuse and how we as a society can become the voice when the parents refuse to speak on behalf of the children, the elderly and the ones that were silenced in death. I also want to thank a friend in England for the contributions made about Baby Peter which I will talk more about him and his darling smile despite his suffering of abuse for 17 months until his death. I apologize that I have not talked about him enough since his tregedy was much more horrific than and just as terrible as Baby Keegan.
The troubles that we face in our daily lives is of no fault to the children that were born into such disorganization. Planned parenting, adoption and fostering options are available for those families that face such a crisis. I have talked to a social worker in my area and I will leave her name out to protect her identity. In our discussion, we touched upon preventative methods. Family, friends of family and even the social care system are options for a source of education and help should the need arise that abuse can become a possiblity. There are also classes at Goodwill and other sources through Planned Parenthood that do offer options should the need for advice will be taken.
The social worker stated to me that she had a woman approach them and asked for help. She cared enough to hand her child over to the fostering system as she saught help for rehabilitation for drug abuse. She had an infant son of three weeks and he was in desperate need of medical attention due to malnutrition yet the young mother stepped forward and knew that she was doing wrong. To protect her identity, the mother's name and the name of the baby will not be revealed.
This mother had the courage to admit her faults and stepped forward to turn in her own child as she sought treatment for her addictions since she was going into a facility where she would not be visited but not incarcerated, if that makes much sense. She is one of the few that stood up among the many that remained quiet and hid behind the veil of the social norm.
My theory is this: Most of us are brought up with the notion that we are to help ourselves when we think that no one else will. It is this pride that cost lives. It's not necessarily the case with many, but it sure rings bells with some. Pride and vanity tend to block our judgement when it comes to how we are viewed as people in a society. It is this pride that causes many of us to lie to get out of a situation and allow another to take the fall. Pride can be attributed to many avenues in a person's life. We all want to feel important. We all want to feel that we are accomplishing a goal and we all want to feel that we are doing the right thing. Yet there are many still that use this sensation for the wrong purpose.
My question is this; if you knew of someone that was abusing a child, causing harm to a child do you, as the person, turn the other cheek and wish not to get involved due to the reasoning that you were conditioned to believe that "It's none of my businees."? If so, how often do you see this happen and have you thought about options to approach those that cause harm? I'm not talking spankings, I'm talking beatings. This problem will not go away by itself.
The troubles that we face in our daily lives is of no fault to the children that were born into such disorganization. Planned parenting, adoption and fostering options are available for those families that face such a crisis. I have talked to a social worker in my area and I will leave her name out to protect her identity. In our discussion, we touched upon preventative methods. Family, friends of family and even the social care system are options for a source of education and help should the need arise that abuse can become a possiblity. There are also classes at Goodwill and other sources through Planned Parenthood that do offer options should the need for advice will be taken.
The social worker stated to me that she had a woman approach them and asked for help. She cared enough to hand her child over to the fostering system as she saught help for rehabilitation for drug abuse. She had an infant son of three weeks and he was in desperate need of medical attention due to malnutrition yet the young mother stepped forward and knew that she was doing wrong. To protect her identity, the mother's name and the name of the baby will not be revealed.
This mother had the courage to admit her faults and stepped forward to turn in her own child as she sought treatment for her addictions since she was going into a facility where she would not be visited but not incarcerated, if that makes much sense. She is one of the few that stood up among the many that remained quiet and hid behind the veil of the social norm.
My theory is this: Most of us are brought up with the notion that we are to help ourselves when we think that no one else will. It is this pride that cost lives. It's not necessarily the case with many, but it sure rings bells with some. Pride and vanity tend to block our judgement when it comes to how we are viewed as people in a society. It is this pride that causes many of us to lie to get out of a situation and allow another to take the fall. Pride can be attributed to many avenues in a person's life. We all want to feel important. We all want to feel that we are accomplishing a goal and we all want to feel that we are doing the right thing. Yet there are many still that use this sensation for the wrong purpose.
My question is this; if you knew of someone that was abusing a child, causing harm to a child do you, as the person, turn the other cheek and wish not to get involved due to the reasoning that you were conditioned to believe that "It's none of my businees."? If so, how often do you see this happen and have you thought about options to approach those that cause harm? I'm not talking spankings, I'm talking beatings. This problem will not go away by itself.