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Growing up in today's world isn't easy. In western countries kids are feeling like part of a huge river, worried what may happen if they will get caught. Will someone help them? In eastern countries they deal with problems, children should not. And that influence their future.

But we all are born with some gens, be it from our parents or maybe our ancestors. Some of us can go through problems like a sunray through clouds; for others the problems are like a rocks on their tomb.

Myself, looking back... the childhood could be worse. But it was also bit sad. My most biggest problem I took from childhood was being sexually abused as a child..one short moment, changed me.. and I told my mum only when I was 18.. bit too late to do anything.. leaving all of us bit helpless. I guess, that is at the moment my biggest fight I am fighting. To forgive? And forget?

Anyway, lately I drawn and image (I am proud of, althrough it of course needs some updates and all) and it started something in me ..why not to make a feature about what today kids in the world deal with. Here are some images and literature, some are sad, some lovely, some part of awareness.. give it a thought what are our children going through.. and maybe they are not telling us?
To all parents out there.. I know, kids are sometimes difficult to deal with.. but honestly.. so are we, adults

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MemoriesMEMORIES
All the shame and all the misery,
It made me so insecure.
I may look strong,
But I'm afraid and defenceless.
I feel like I'm buried in hell
All the anger, it dwells in my mind
The disturbing truth
That I'm trying to hide.
It's all inside of me.
No one can see,
The growing pain that is breaking me.
All those endless painful memories.
Memories of love, I cannot find.
Buried inside, Deep in my mind.
All the anger, it dwells in my mind.
The disturbing truth,
That is helping me loose my mind
It's all inside of me,
No one can see,
The growing pain that is killing me.
Samantha Barton-Hanson

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Child AbuseChild Abuse
There's a girl I knew,
A really beautiful girl,
With dirty blond hair,
A really young girl,
This girl was seven years old,
She had a sad tale,
She told me the tale,
The hour before she died,
That she was abused,
Her mother got drunk,
The girl hid under the bed,
Her dad got shot,
She heard a gun CRACK,
And a loud THUNK on the ground,
And saw bright blood,
Her mom went crazy,
The mother killed her true love,
And blamed the poor girl,
The girl was punished,
For no actual reason,
And was left with scars,
Her mom got worse,
And gave the girl more bruises,
And fresher black eyes,
After she told me,
I raced to my mom and dad,
And told them the tale,
We called the police,
They were told the story too,
And drove to her house,
But when they got there,
They were all too late to help,
'Cause the girl was dead.

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Few child abuse awareness images plus a link to a news I found dealing with the problem as well.
I didn't know April was National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
news.deviantart.com/article/76…

And as the feature title says, The Future of our Children, and since it's also May commonly known as month of Love..at least here in Slovakia, here are some lovely images to the topic:


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The image that somehow triggered it, is the following (self promotion left for the end..ya know )



IF you found this journal interesting, and you feel like contributing on the topic too..maybe.. please go to my forum .. I am thinking to throw a contest on the topic "The Future of our Children" .. but as I have never thrown a contest yet, I am still trying to find some self-esteem .. and to think out the details needed.
Here is the link: gwathiell.deviantart.com/journ…
Feel free to write here or there.

My dear watchers and guests, hope you'll enjoy the feature