We all know that you cant leave children in abusive homes but the sad thing is, the alternative is often not an improvement. A friend of mine shared this video. I hope she wont mind if I share a few details (just say if you do, and Ill delete this). I met her in school, I think she joined around age 12/13. We knew she was adopted but we (well certainly, I) didnt know very much else. She was happy and bubbly, a lovely girl, a part of my sort of misfits group (we werent really misfits as such, we just didnt fit into a group as it were, so we loosely banded together, but we didnt have cliques in my class). I didnt know that she had been in 16 families and 4 children homes before she was 9 years old. Then one day, during our GCSEs, she didnt come back after the holiday. We asked among our selves but no one knew where she had gone, not even those closest to her. We asked the teachers but they either didnt know or wouldnt tell. I thought her family had moved or maybe she had gone to a different school. Children at private school often dont live locally, so its not easy to socialise with school friends outside of school, it required prearrangement with parents, which isnt always easy. There was no email, facebook or mobile phones then to help us keep in touch. I thought she was happy, why would I not? She had a family who cared enough to send her to private school, they must care about her, right? Only recently have we reconnected through facebook and now I know, she was plunged back into that system, ripped not only from her family but from her school and her friends and as if that wasnt bad enough, during her exam year. If that isnt setting someone up to fail, I dont know what is. In her own words. When you watch this and feel the emotions, this is what we went through; hiding under tables because youre too scared to come out, being abused by the very people that are supposed to care for you, love you, and surround you the pain of no family is so great as a child, it is like a hole in your body that no one can cure ... Its life with no love, no care and no body. You live each day hoping that one day, someone will want you, and that they will care for you and stop the hurt. Why do we take children away from their families, when the alternative is no better?
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 01:31:56 +0000
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