Child Abuse Horrors

This post is about homes. There are some disturbing things happening in the world that made me think hard.

Each day, when you watch media headlines, there is at least one saying "Abused child", "Two years old beaten", "He tied up daughter and son"... All this is happening right in peoples homes, places that are supposed do be safest shelters for everyone and especially the kids.

I don't want to get inside those monsters minds. There are experts who can do that. What worries me is what happens to these kids afterwards?

What do they feel when go back to that house? What happens in their little heads? Who can they trust when the were let down by people who they trusted the most? How do they look at the world?

Can we just for an instant close our eyes and imagine all the horrors they had to live with. Imagine the memories that they will carry with them as long as they live and wherever they go.

When such things happen, officials are talking about "safe houses" and they let the courts handle it. All media attention goes to the monster and rarely to the children who suffered. Did they recover? Can they lead a normal life?

Those kind of things didn't start yesterday. They happen regularly from long time ago. How many ruined children lives before we figure out how to prevent it? How do we protect the innocent? How can we make our own houses "safe"?

For starters, we must stop being quiet and turn our heads away. Then we need courage to face the problem in a long run and finally the persistence to find the best solutions.

This is one mother of two thinking aloud...