Topic : A Child's Voice Connection, Prevent Child Abuse; Abductions

"A Child's Voice Connection"  is a Mission that I have been working on for the past several months.   I am a 46 year old father and husband, married for 26 years and 3 wonderful children, one precious grandson.

I have been posting for several month's now on Dr Phil's Depression Site.  I wanted to separate my discussions of depression from this Campaign.

Goals of this campaign:

• To be an active advocate for the purpose of preventing Child abuse and Abductions.
• To Integrate as many Advocacy Groups out there for one common cause.  This includes "The Amber Alert" which is named after Amber Hagerman who was a nine year old girl who was abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered in 1996.
• Public Awareness and intervention of suspicious circumstances of a child who may be the victim of abuse by reporting to authorities, calling 911.
• To teach the public which will include parents, teachers, law enforcement, clergymen the significance and magnitude of this problem.  According to Oprah Winfrey, every day 2000 children are reported abducted or missing. 
• To teach children, on a scale based on their ages how to avoid penitentially dangerous situations.  To teach them the realization of statistics and dangers,  and stories of other little girls and some little boys who have been abducted.  Especially the most well known and recent cases such as Amber Hagerman, Jessica Lunsford, Carlie Brucia, and others.
• This is critical.  To teach little boys, on a sliding scale based on age, the SIGNIFICANCE AND LIFE LONG NEGATIVE IMPACT AND SEVERE EMOTIONAL TRAUMA THAT LITTLE GIRLS WILL SUFFER BECAUSE of THEIR ACTIONS.
• I believe that if we increase our efforts 100 fold, which is totally possible, that we can reduce this horrific and disgusting and terrible assaults on our children by at least 50%.
• My goal is to eliminate child abuse and abductions. 
• Statistics say that 1 or 4 children are molested by the age of 18.  I believe that it is more life 50% or greater.  This is sickening and MUST BE STOPPED.
• I would like to thank Oprah for her contributions to our children and her campaign to fight child abuse, and I share the same convictions as Oprah and hope that this message board will serve to help in this campaign.
• I am an ordained minister and the is my calling.  I am going to work with the local Law Enforcement Agencies, The Amber Alert program, Churches, communities, and Neighborhood watches.

Summary.  Educate, protect and be as straight forward as possible to stop this madness.  TO get the communities involved, and have a plan of action which I am working on in the event of an abduction.

Please join this discussion and I am going to provide an email address to forward any questions and/or comments to related to this topic.

DJMATT AKA djphil