Just thinking how sad it is that we can’t trust the world
with our kids. We spend half our lives having kids, raising them, teaching
them, caring for them, loving them. They may cause us pain, grief and
frustration, but they are our greatest joy. We’re proud. We’re fiercely
protective. We love unconditionally.
Yet we can’t cushion them from external blows. Can’t keep
them in a safe bubble. Eventually, they are exposed to the world – whether it’s
babysitter, day care, church, school, a date, the grocery store or even our
very own yard.
Kids are bullied, hurt, abducted, molested, raped and
killed. It happened again just the other day. A young girl was snatched from the
street near her own home, in front of witnesses.
What in the world is wrong with people? Something like that
is clearly premeditated. How does a person think about doing that and then go
through all of the motions required to actually pull it off without somewhere
along the way some kind of inner brake taking hold?
It truly boggles my mind how many men out there must have
some screwed up DNA, some predatory animal instinct or a complete lack of
conscience that would allow them to follow through on that kind of sick
behavior. Is it their upbringing? Their environment? Their chemistry? Our
society?
And the bigger questions – how can we identify them, and stop
them?
You can’t possibly know everyone your child will intersect
with. Yet you know not everyone can be trusted. That’s the outrage. We should
be able to confidently let our kids out of our sight and not fear for their
lives, not fear the people around them.
We can’t keep our kids locked indoors all the time. We can’t
be with them around the clock their whole lives. They have to live their lives.
It’s so sad that some of those lives get cut short simply by being out in their
world.
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