Rant - Feeling like I am wasting my time....

[Not Important]

Hello,

I have been hearing several reports online about a particular type of child abuse and decided to do something about it. It's not covered by any laws and parents often make easy to believe excuses for it. So I decided to make a survey about it for those who have been abused that way to fill out. The plan was to use the survey results to write a paper about the abuse to bring it out of the dark and into the light where people that can help such as schools, police, child protective services can learn about it and in the future develope perhaps a method for finding out if it is indeed being done to a child and be able to step in and end it.

However, the last couple of days I have had people tell me I am wasting my time. That no one will take me seriously because it's just me doing the paper and not a collage or something. Because I have no PHD or anything, that people won't take me seriously. I try to ignore the comments and just keep going with my goal. But at times, I just feel like I am indeed wasting my time, that just one person can't make a difference. I don't know.

-Stanley

[Katiee]

That's sounds like a good idea. I don't think you'd be wasting your time at all. Are you at uni/college? If you are maybe talk to a teacher about it or something? Maybe get the college/uni involved? Take care. xo.

[Not Important]

Hello,

No, not in collage. And it's not something I think a collage would actually get behind. I am just one person trying...hoping to make a difference. coming from a abusive childhood, I just can't stand it when someone is abused. It just rips my gut out when I hear about it. It's just hard because the punishment is done in secret, and the victom feels shame about it and doesn't report it. So it just stays a family secret. It's not going to stop till people know about it and start steping in instead of just letting it go on and pretending it didn't happen. It's just fustraigting.

-Stanley

[Popple]

Please don't give up because of what other people say. What you are doing is a really good thing and just one person can make a difference and you can do anything if you put your mind to it.
Take care
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