Yarissa Rodriguez (Edison): Child Abuse Images

Some people say that human beings are born with the notion for helping the weak and innocent, but child abuse images say different. There are many child abuse images that include statistics like that fact that the rate of child abuse in the United States from birth to age 3 is 16.4 per 1000 children. Reading these statistics in child abuse images would make anyone shake their heads in disbelief. Children are the weakest and most innocent beings we know and the fact that child abuse images exist at all, is a testament that some of us are not born with the inclination to help the weak and innocent. And don’t think that just because you are not the direct cause of child abuse images that you don’t have anything to do with it. If after seeing child abuse images, and lamenting them, you continue your daily life as if there is nothing you can do, you too become part of the problem. We must think of all those children in child abuse pics and stories that have nobody to speak for them, no one to defend them, and certainly nobody to rescue them. We must decide to act, to do something about all the evil that is going around us. The way we behave toward all children is a direct reflection of who we are as individuals and as a society. The fact that child abuse images abound daily, should stick in our minds until we take action. Child abuse affects all society no matter what social class, values or culture you may have. Therefore, it is a social problem that pictures do not solve, but society as a whole coming to together to educate and prevent this horrible act. There many ways you can help, just pick one and do it consistently—do not neglect your responsibility.

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