Powerful Blog Post

I came across this blog site when searching for information on CSA. The first paragraph states so succinctly what I wanted to say in my previous post. He says:

If you are reading this post, please click on the title of this entry before reading. This will allow you to read the entry and then click “share” it at the end. When you click “share”, a small Facebook icon will appear, and it will allow you to immediately post it to your Facebook profile.  I can already sense your hesitation, trust me. Will people think I was abused if I share this? Will I offend someone? Will I stir up something unnecessarily? Will I invade someone’s privacy? The answer is no. Progress demands boldness. Unlike currently incurable diseases like Cancer, Autism, Parkinson’s, ALS, and Multiple Sclerosis, the Sexual Abuse of Children already has a cure: us. The more we talk, share, and communicate – the more we as a society take a stand against childhood sexual abuse – the faster we will eradicate this disease. So, please, don’t hesitate, embrace boldness and share this story.

Here is the rest of the post: We Are the Cure.  I hope you feel compelled to share it as I did. We need to talk more about this in order to eradicate it.

~Suz

The Teal Ribbon

If you're a football fan you couldn't help but notice all the teams wearing a bit of pink during Sunday's game in support of Breast Cancer Awarenes. So, of course, me being me, I complained to my friends as we watched the Pats beat Oakland  "They should be wearing Teal!".  Yes, Suzanne.. step up to your soap box.. as one of my friends said but  "Breast Cancer actually kills people". Well guess what, so does childhood sexual abuse! It kills the child, taking away their innocence; the suicides the substance abuse the repercussions! Childhood sexual abuse takes away the person that the abused child would have become.

I posted awhile back that the number of adults who are survivors of childhood sexual abuse is greater than the number of any one disease. And yet, sexual abuse is easier to prevent - we just need to educate our communities and our children!

So why aren't we??? Because no one wants to talk about it. It's too hard to conceive, to hard to believe that this is happening to our precious children. But think about it, I'm sure there must have been a time when we didn't want to talk about a disease involving the ta-tas, or AIDS or the prostate. But we do now, and we are trying to prevent and cure them!.. So, I promised Joel that in 5 years he'd see more of the teal ribbon.. hey maybe even at a football game :)

~ Suz