BBC Children in Care Article
Catching up from last month, the BBC ran a report on children in care and the various abuse dangers that they face whilst in the care of the state. The summary of that report is here.
– CBG
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I want all of us to ponder that line for a little bit and think about it. Consider the possibility that you, as a survivor, are not broken. Maybe you are just human. Maybe everything you see as broken is just a natural reaction to abuse in the same way every human carries things forward into their lives from their past. That’s not to say the harm isn’t real. Indeed it is very much real. It might not, however, have changed the possibility of our light still being inside us.
You are still human and you still have value in this world.
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