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~ABUSE~
Breaking
the silence...
 At
least 1.8 million women are battered each year in the U.S.
90%
of battered women report that their children have witnessed the battering.
In
30% of cases of abuse against women, children are also abused.
Between
2,000 and 4,000 women are beaten to death each year in the U.S.
80%
of men who batter commit no other crime.
Abuse
takes on many forms. Physical abuse, mental abuse, child abuse and
spouse abuse, just to name a few. I have two sections to this part
of my site...one
section dealing with child abuse...one section dealing with spouse
abuse. Most of the pages are poems or stories, but hopefully they get
the point across. Below the links are numbers to Hotlines.
If there is ANY type of abuse going on, PLEASE call these
numbers, or get help somewhere.
Let's
break the silence...
National
Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-SAFE
(7233)
National
Child Abuse Hotline
1-800-4-A-CHILD
Your
Bill of Rights...
This
is your bill of rights...don't let anyone
take them away from you!
You
have the right to be you.
You
have the right to put yourself first.
You
have the right to be safe.
You
have the right to love and be loved.
You
have the right to be treated with respect.
You
have the right to be human ~ not perfect.
You
have the right to be angry and protest if you are treated unfairly
or abusively by anyone.
You
have the right to your own privacy.
You
have the right to have your own opinions, to express them, and to be
taken seriously.
You
have the right to earn and control your own money.
You
have the right to ask questions about anything that affects your life.
You
have the right to make decisions that affect you.
You
have the right to grow and change, and this includes changing your mind.
You
have the right to say no.
You
have the right to make mistakes.
You
have the right not to be responsible for other adults' problems.
You
have the right not to be liked by everyone.
You
have the right to control your own life and to change it if you are
not happy with it as it is.
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~I
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