I am a mother of a beautiful little three year old. I have been fortunate enough to have been raised in a healthy loving home, and have provided the same for my daughter. I have decided to put this together in hopes that one person, one child, one family, can find comfort from their destructive lives.
As most of you may not know me, I am 24 and grew up in the midwest my entire life. I have a huge heart when it comes to children. I have a goal to own a ranch to help abused children. With the many different ideas racing through my mind, it is hard for me to find just one thing to help.
The P.O.C. (Protecting Our Children) Ranch, will be a place for children that have struggled with abusive homes to come and enjoy the country setting. They will be able to learn how to horse back ride, how to take care of farm animals, go fishing, and just enjoy being a child.
I was going to start a non profit orgization with this, but have chosen otherwise. Maybe down the road when it grows into something bigger, it will happen. With a few prayers, and some help, it might just happen.
Do your part in protecting our children!
http://www.childabuseprevention.org/
http://www.stop-abuse.org/
http://www.childabuse.org/
http://www.stopchildabuse.com.au/default.asp
84 percent of prison inmates were abused as children.
One in three girls and one in five boys are sexually abused by an adult at some time during childhood. (Most sexual abusers are someone in the family or someone the child knows, not the proverbial stranger with a lollipop.)
Families with four or more children have higher rates of abuse and neglect, especially if their living conditions are crowded or they live in isolated areas.
More than 80 percent of abusers are a parent or someone close to a child. Child abuse is far more likely to occur in the child's home than in a day care center.
One in thirteen kids with a parent on drugs is physically abused regularly. (Drug and alcohol abuse in the family makes child abuse about twice as likely.)
One out of ten babies born today are born to mothers who are abusing drugs.
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