Y'all know my history, so you have an idea why I would make my porch a safe haven for my son's friends. I put out snacks and stuff and just stay outside to make sure everyone's alright, because no other parents are ever outside. The kids talk to me a lot, because I'm present and they trust me. I've already had one girl come to my house late one night because her dad was hitting her with a goddamn elecrical cord. (yes I called the cops. He went to jail that night.) Now she's scared to talk to me about stuff, I can tell.
Today other kids, from multiple households, told me about their parents or step parents abusing them. I sat the older ones down and explained to them that they did the right thing by telling and that I have to do something about it, but they started denying shit when they figured out I was going to say something.
God dammit you guys. I want to help them but I need them to tell the truth. I'm going to report it, but I'm not sure they won't be too scared to speak up when it really counts, like to social services or the police. I know what it's like to be a child scared for her life, but I don't know how to get them to understand that it will be okay.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Protective_Services
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Godwillwin ago
A little off topic- I apologize but I don't have any info that makes this worthy of its own thread. This is a D.C. Shelter I'm wondering about. Courtney's house. Has anyone looked into it? Obama sang its praises.
http://www.courtneyshouse.org/who-we-are.html
I stumbled on it reading this huff post article http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/904680 Excerpt from article: Now, as a mother, I’ve watched children learn about trafficking the hard way. My oldest daughter graduated from a prestigious high school in Northern Virginia. As a teenager, she has referred two of her classmates to Courtney’s House, the Washington, DC shelter for child sex trafficking victims I run. As my daughter watched her peers become trapped and enslaved by pimps she asked me “Mom, why don’t we learn about this in school?” It was a good question without a good answer.
But it’s not just my daughter’s high school teaching the myth that slavery in America ended centuries ago. Most high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools in the U.S. teach the same thing. And it’s written in most history textbooks that slavery has an expiration date, and that date is far, far passed.