Pretend for one moment that you are no longer yourself. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cold winter night and your parents have opted to attend a party, which you are not allowed at. "It will be fine," they say. Although you already know what is to come. Your uncle comes over to watch you for the evening, and your parents are so pleased by the fact that they do not have to find a sitter. The nightmare begins. You can feel his eyes gazing through your clothes every time that he looks at you. You feel dirty and violated every time you think about what he does to you when you are alone. He walks over to the couch and sits down next to you. His hand slithers it way onto your knee and you cringe in disgust. Your mind feels panicky as you feel his touch in more intimate places and you scream involuntarily. His grip tightens as he places his hand over y!
our mouth. "We'll have to do this the hard way!" His massive body is on top of yours, and you feel so power
child abuse, the only real cure, as scary as it may sound lies solely in the hands of mankind.
less. Eventually, you sink into a sobbing heap and simply wait for his passions to stop. You wait for the nightmare to end. It is all your fault...
So how will this cycle or positive feedback loop ever come to an end? Besides a lot of prayers and hoping that people will start doing the right thing, education is probably the most logical answer. If children are taught that this sort of behavior is wrong at an early age, then maybe little by little this succession will slowly come to an end. However, people are taking a stand in trying to diminish this worldwide epidemic, but the suppression of this most cursed of diseases is not in the sight of all of those who look to the future. Some people just except the fact that as long as there are people there will be abuse, and if it is not personally affecting them, then it is not that big of a deal. Fortunately, we have had some powerful people take a stand on this issue. In 1982 President
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