Sunday, July 6, 2014

Finding The Best Child Abuse Speakers

By Rosella Campbell


There can be no crime more despicable than abusing children. Too many parents find the responsibility of caring for an infant, toddler or teenager more than they can handle and strike out at their children in horrific ways. Often these parents were victims of abusive parents when they were growing up and have no other tools available to them for the task at hand. This lack of knowledge is not an adequate excuse for the pain they inflict on innocents. The children who survive and are able to rise above their situation are very often the best child abuse speakers.

The children of violent abusers have a history of enduring some of the most horrible treatment imaginable for most of their lives. Many run away from the abusers and others find emotional coping mechanisms that help them to survive until they are adults. The abuses they suffer may include beatings, starvation, emotional and sexual mistreatment from those who should be protecting and caring for them.

Some children are removed from their abusive homes only to find themselves placed in an even worse situation in the foster care system. The abusive treatment may come from neighbors, siblings, aunts or uncles or step parents. These people make certain their victims will not speak of their plight using threats and intimidation so many times the victims are grown adults before they speak of the abuse they suffered.

Some victims shut the experience in the back of their minds and never deal with it. Others continue the cycle of violence and are abusive to their own families. Some victims use their life experiences as a blue print for others to follow into recovery from the effects caused by being abused as children. They have found understanding and desire to pass that knowledge along to others who have been in the same situation in their lives.

These individuals use their experience, strength and hope to motivate other victims to start moving through the pain and grief that they endured to reach a balanced existence where they can pursue their goals without carrying the burden of the abuses they endured. The main motivators they use is the success they have had in their lives.

By using the abuses of their life to become stronger they have been able to create lives lead by self reliant actions, pursuing literacy and the means to improve their lives and the lives in their communities and society as a whole. By using the strength and tools used as children they share the way they have overcome learned behaviors and reached the goals they have reached today.

The presenters of these programs are not limited to public audiences but also make it a point to speak at seminars and conferences attended by police and social services personnel. Their goal is to help authorities to identify situations where children are in jeopardy of being harmed. They provide insights into the behaviors that may imply that abuses are taking place in the home.

The primary goal for all of the agencies and advocates is to prevent children from being abused by people who should be caring for them. They feel that by shining a light on this problem they are helping to stop the cycle of family violence that can continue in a family from generation to generation until it is broken.




About the Author:



No comments: