To identify and treat the victims of child abuse is immediately necessary. To identify and treat the abuser enables us to get in front of this hereditary disease. Perhaps they are ourselves. I believe that most abusive parents love their children, and desperately do not want to harm them. I pray that the next several months see this issue drawn into the sun.
Shame is hell, and it is meaning- less.
We can help. We can learn to recognize, un- derstand, and report when necessary. Perhaps by simply suggesting positive parenting skills. Som- etimes it takes one sentance that is heard to send the ball rolling in a different direction. Life, indeed, turns on a dime.