March 8, 2010
- Innocence
Dear Mrs. Figgins:
We’re new parents blessed with beautiful twin girls. We are scared to death of what is happening in this world, and no doubt around the globe. Children are at risk with sexual monsters.
It wasn’t like this when we were kids, Mrs. Figgins. My husband and my parents didn’t lock the doors at night.
As a mother I am paralyzed with fear about what to look for, where to send the girls to school, who to trust them with. The questions that swirl around my head are never ending. I am aging with fear.
Where do we start? How can we protect our children from these monsters? How do parents sleep at night?
What can we do?
Tara and Jonathan, Los Angeles
Dear Tara and Jonathan
The world has changed. It continues to change in the blink of an eye. And yet, for the sake of the kids well being – balance & normalcy is critical.
Perhaps it is the fast changing pace of how news travels, our work or even how we manage and manipulate our waking hours. Whatever the reason – this is where we are today. We’re on the edge. We let life happen.
That is – until the day it happens to us.
Laws protect every predator in an effort to save just one innocent person. Is the trade off worth it? Does any reason or excuse matter to a parent whose child has been emotionally, physically or sexually abuse? NO.
Nothing replaces a child. No reason or excuse matters. NOT A ONE. NEVER.
We have no greater charge than protecting EVERY child. This responsibility belongs to each and every one of us – no matter if that ”that child” is ours biologically - or one whom we have never met.
We pray for each and every child, for each and every parent - the victims of unimaginable, monstrous crimes.
May GOD bless you, and protect you.
Mrs. Figgins
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