Child Abuse Links

If anyone knows what it's like to be a victim of abuse, it's me. It leaves you mentally and emotionally unstable for the rest of your life, making you feel unworthy and unloved. You tend to think things like, if you're talking to someone, and it seems as if they aren't listening, you think they hate you and don't care and you are totally unloved. It makes you feel as if you don't have a friend in the world, and no one will ever love you. It's makes you very insecure and full of self pity. And worst of all, it was a parent or sibling that made you feel this way the rest of your life. With proper counseling and lots of love, this process may be irreversible. It may just give lots of kids the strength they need to see what wonderful people they are. Here I have compiled a list of all of the internet sites I could find that about the prevention and treatment of child abuse.

Child Abuse Prevention Program Clearinghouse
YesICAN - International Child Abuse Network
Child Abuse Info
Child Abuse: Statistics, Research, and Resources
California Consortium to Prevent Child Abuse
Child Abuse Prevention Services (CAPS)
Foundation for the Prevention of Child Abuse
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
Child Abuse Prevention Network
A System Out of Control: The Epidemic of False Allegations of Child Abuse
Child Abuse Services
Preventing & Reporting Child Abuse
Healing from Child Abuse

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Meningitis is a disease that damages your spinal cord and kills you. Here is a great link to learn more about it.

Meningitis Spinal Cord Injuries are very serious and can leave a person completely paralyzed for the rest of their lives, much like Christopher Reeves. It can happen many different sorts of ways, including medical mistakes. Here are a couple of great links to tell you about treatment and help to spinal cord injured patients.

Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal Cord Injury

Premarital sex is a VERY serious descision, and the way I look at it, if you aren't RESPONSIBLE enough to put on a condom or FORCE your partner too, you aren't mature enough to be having sexual relationships. I myself am the product of two teenagers "doing IT" and let me tell you, if you think that having a baby at a young age will ruin YOUR life, you also have to remember that you could ruin that baby's life. Not every teenage pregnancy turns out bad, but 8 times out of 10, it does. Living on welfare and having ten kids isn't a great idea, and think about it, are those kids getting the best kind of life they deserve?

Now, there are five choices you can make about premarital sex and unwanted pregnancy.
1.Abstain from sex untill you are married AND ready.
2.Use birth control. No matter what you think or what your partner thinks, a condom can save your life. You never know what kind of diseases you can get from what kind of people, and you CAN get pregnant the first time you have sex. I'm a virgin's baby, and I was born to a 14 year old mother.
3.Adoption. There are thousands of willing, good, wonderful people who want babies and can't have them. You never know what kind of person would adopt your child, a minister, an executive of a company, the president of a company, someone, just look at Rosie O'Donnell. People that could give your baby a better life.
4.Abortion. While I wouldn't ever have an abortion, there are good reasons to have one. I've been raped, and I know I couldn't ever look my child in the eye and tell them who their REAL father was, that I didn't want them, that I didn't ask for them, that I didn't try on my part to become pregnant, but that since abortion wasn't something I could do because I feared the protestors, and I had two options, adoption or keeping you, I kept you, cause eventually, you'd find me in the end anyway, and then I'd have to tell you. Put yourself in that childs position, would you want to hear that? I wouldn't, and I wouldn't EVER want to tell that child something like that. Then of course, there are those tiny little teenagers that are WAY to small to give birth, and carrying a child full term, RIGHT NOW could kill them, well, I would have an abortion if I were in that position. I have many veiws on abortion, and I am pro choice, because we all have a choice.
5.Keep it. Of course, looking at your situation, and thinking about if you could raise this child well, well, it would all have to be up to you.

Those are the choice's I can think of, and number one is the best. Here are some links on this, they're REALLY good too, good luck on your choice and peace be with you.

Sex Before Marraige
Baby Zone(This is a GREAT one!)
Planned Parenthood
Unwanted Pregnancy
InfoCenter Guide to Safer Sex-A Word About Unwanted Pregnancy
SexKittyn's Birthcontrol Choices
Ask Noah about Pregnancy:Abortion, Adoption, & Surrogacy
Adoption Support Center
Planned Parenthood:Who will help me decide about abortion?
What's wrong with Abortion?
Talking to kids about AIDS
Teen Pregnancy/Maternal & Neonatal Health