I believe there comes a time when the shadows that hide abuse and abusers should be unveiled. The simple things from calling a child an idiot or stupid or the bolder of threats of physical force to the actual physical abuse itself.

The law is sometimes stupid in the ways it can find excuses for not doing its job and even worse turning the blind eye to the suffering of a child. The head games played on a normal child who wants nothing more than to be a little boy or a little girl and if the infraction is one presupposed by the adult the excuse of ADD or ADHD gives way to forms being filed and a child placed on devastating drugs that not only hamper the child in its emotional development but physical development .The so called loving gandparent that lies to the doctor acting in concert with a parent that wants nothing more than a drugged child rather than to take the time to be a parent and perhaps gain th etrust and respect of the child. When the lies of grades of failure are tooled ignored pronounced when the real grades are reflect success. The sad comments of a child as in the night it tremors and shakes from the effects of the drugs and complaining of side effects its told its faking.

The screams of the child within and the pale reality of a spirit broken. The sad comment when coercion is the tool and the subjugation of spirit, hope and joy are traded for a slavery far worse than that known by slaves. the slavery of fear

The child stands for its self respect and esteem and is told they need a psychiatrist or psychologist. More drugs, more control when its taken to the floor and threatened.The community of social workers whose scruples bend to the profit motive and those who work with integrity must bear the sham of the others.

The emotions of a child when it wakes screaming from nightmares unheard by social workers or courts and the abuser grins at its handiwork. Threatens the child if it reports abuse.

The schools who must deal as the chidlren act out . We speak of gangs kids who go bad, is it they are bad or displaying the tool they have learned ..fear. We ponder consider and demand they be dealt with, when perhaps its we who should deal with the root cause and demand punishments for abusers.

Sometimes when I dive and I see marine animals such as sharks, I ponder who is more humane, human, we or the sharks?

Don't you thin the only mark a child should have is a smile? Perhaps its time to plead the cases of the abuse and reveal the abuse and the makers of such wounded children?