My January was a productive one. I’m making more changes to my routine and it seems to be agreeing with me. I don’t feel as sleep deprived and I have lost a few pounds by counting calories. Life on the home front is great and I am managing my time better as well.
My only sour grapes being that I recently had negative comment left on my news website that really bothered me. The topic is one that triggered some strong feelings in me personally and that was child abuse.
The commenter left a lengthy response to an arrest article we did and in it defended the person who is accused of horrible acts against several children. I didn’t post the comment but it was one of those things that the more I thought about it the more disgusted I got. I wasn’t going to engage in a personal war of words on my website with the individual that left the comment but I did post a lengthy article on child abuse (one in a four-part series I am currently working on) and covered everything to defining certain types of abuse, statistics, and discussed how when victims of abuse are “not believed” by those closest to them it sometimes keeps people from coming forward.
I feel so strongly that anyone who is abused should be supported not blamed.I feel strongly that offenders should be called out and people should know “hey this person is “NOT safe”. I really don’t understand how anyone would think it is OK to make a statement calling out victims as liars especially since this is not the first time the offender was arrested for this type of crime. So while I know I will never change someone’s way of thinking that is that skewed, I did make a small stand against what I think is one of the worst crimes that anyone can commit. It’s a subject that shouldn’t be kept quiet. Wrong is wrong and I have no problem shouting from the rooftops my feelings on abuse.