Child Abuse Awareness

April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month. During the month of April, you should wear blue to show your support against child abuse. Child abuse is something that happens whether we want to believe it or not, it happens sometimes too close than we want to realize. Every day children are mistreated or hurt in some way and some children will die. This has become a very important topic to me in the last few years, as I watched a friend's son go through the worst type of child abuse, and being in the life of a child that was possible sexually abused at a young age. Now another friend, her daughter may have been abused in daycare also. This needs to stop and people need to be aware that it is happening.
There are many places where people can go to for help, they can check out these links:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/
http://www.preventchildabuse.org/index.shtml
These links can help people seek whom they need to report abuse to, or how to help prevent it.
Abuse comes in many forms, it's not always physical or sexual, mental abuse is also a very common type of abuse. All types can scar a child for life, and cause behavioral problems down the road. If you think there is any chance your child is being hurt, you need to seek help, even if it is just a hunch, you never know when it could end up saving your child's life. There is nothing wrong with being cautious.
A close member of my car club, his son was abused to the point that he left us and went to heaven in July 2009. he was only 3 years old. His story has touched so many that nationwide our club has a sticker on our cars to show we are looking for the people who did this to this child and that we are aware of what is going on. This blue ribbon is a symbol that we care and we will help in any way we can to help this grieving father find the people who did this. Justice will be served and I truly believe god will help this child see his justice.
The picture of the of the blue ribbon on our cars is in the top right corner of the blog. Below is a symbol for our car club that is fully against child abuse. You can also nationally find b.a.c.a which is Bikers against child abuse.


I want people to be aware of what is happening and that we all need to stand together and do what we can to bring awareness to the world that we will seek out the abusers and bring justice to these children. Remember that you can make a difference no matter how small and you need to report any type of abuse to the correct authorities. If we can catch it early, we can save a child's life and innocence before it's too late. Let's stand together to make sure what happened to this child does not happen to another.