Horrific Problem

Sexual abuse of children! I realized the severity of this problem the other night when I saw the headline about Hershel Walker and his new book about having multiple personality disorder. After reading this, I got curious and did some research online, and found the blogsites of several people affected by this disorder. These peoples lives are plagued by depression, flashbacks and paralyzing situations that are caused by having several "people" of different ages living in their heads. The one other thing all these people have in common is that as children they all endured years of horriific, repeated sexual abuse at the hands of relatives or so-called friends. A few of these individuals had their stories online, and stated that they tried to tell different people what was happening to them, but were not believed. One woman was given up for adoption by a loving mother, only to be adopted by sick, individuals who allowed others to rape her throughout her childhood. She has since reunited with her birth family, but the damage is done. Her birth mother thought she was doing a good thing, but unknowingly placed her in the hands of monsters!

It makes me sick inside to think that so many children in our country are being sexually abused to this level. Can you imagine the trauma that a person must have experienced for their brain to be splice the personality into many different individuals. This scares me! I have two little boys, 4 nieces, 2 nephews & know countless other children that could all be at risk of being abused at some point in their life. We, as a society, need to work harder to educate children & parents about sexual abuse & how to prevent it!