| It was recently reported by a reporter of the | | | | abuse anymore, but the young boys as well. |
| Associated Press, January 31, 2008, that a 10-year | | | | Sometimes it is much better to 'tough things out' |
| old girl gave birth in Cincinnati. As a mother this news | | | | rather than rush into another difficult relationship that |
| turned my stomach and got me so mad, I just had | | | | produces result like this horrible one reported here. |
| to write a note to all you adults out there. The | | | | No young child should have to go through this. |
| prosecutors in Cincinnati suspected the boyfriend of | | | | Who do I blame here? Without knowing the mother's |
| the young girl's mother to be the baby's father; a | | | | full situation, it is hard to blame her totally. However, |
| 40-year old who is now in jail on another charge. My | | | | especially as mothers, we have to talk to our children |
| goodness this mother did pick a good one eh! | | | | and encourage them to confide in us. How could my |
| The question today is: What is happening in our | | | | partner abused my young child under my roof and I |
| homes? Do we know were our children are and what | | | | did not know about it? We have to be like the FBI in |
| they are doing or who they are with? Do we know | | | | our homes. Find it before any other individual do. I |
| the people we are bringing into our homes? Are we | | | | know it is popular in some North American homes for |
| allowing too much privacy without parental control | | | | parents to give too much privacy to children, but I |
| and monitoring? | | | | believe firmly this should not be so. We must know |
| Moms and Dads, please think twice before you walk | | | | what is going on in our homes and our children's lives! |
| out that door away from your family. Think about | | | | In the school and church or any where we send our |
| the welfare of your children and make an effort to | | | | children, we must know what is going on and who |
| work things out before you throw in the towel. I am | | | | they are with. If not the possibility of trouble is just |
| not encouraging you to stay in abusive, destructive | | | | too high. |
| relationships, but a lot of times couples close the | | | | CONCLUSION: Just remember as the saying goes, "it |
| door without thinking twice about their commitment | | | | takes a village to raise a child". Essentially what that |
| to children or the vows they made. | | | | means is: teachers, social workers, health care |
| Women be careful who you get involved with and be | | | | workers, preachers, neighbors, friends, family, |
| a better judge of character. Give yourself some time | | | | everyone, we have to be on the look out for the |
| before you bring these individuals into your homes | | | | children in our care and around us. We have to be |
| and around your children. As the old saying goes, | | | | our brother's keeper in that way, no child will be left |
| "take time to know him, it's not an overnight thing". | | | | behind! |
| Remember it's not just the young girls at risk for | | | | . |