A Suffering Baby

from JoeUser Forums
I'm going to be vague here because this article says it all, and I don't even want to repeat the horrors of what I read. Link

Do things like this really happen?! I just can't believe it. I cried and cried when I read this (and I don't cry very often). This is so disturbing...terrible things are happening in the world at this very moment. If I could comprehend it all, my soul would flip inside-out from the unbearable agony. I just want everything to be right and good with the world, but isolated incidents like this just tear my soul to shreds. What can I do? For one thing, I'll stop reading the news. But as I knelt to pray for this family, I remembered that our Savior suffered and died to relieve this baby's neglect and starvation, and to give this baby love and comfort when even his own mother wouldn't....I STILL CAN'T FATHOM HOW THINGS LIKE THIS CAN HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! What a bunch of dreadfully selfish humans like this baby's mother. I don't know what more I can say. You can read this article and cry with me, and say a prayer (meditate, send positive vibes, etc) too. All we can do to make this world a better place and relieve suffering is to be good people ourselves.

I just can't believe this utter horror.

The first thing I did after bawling my eyes out and saying a prayer was go to my own little boy as he's sound asleep at 10pm...I kissed him and cuddled him and sobbed a little bit more for any other child who is not getting all the love they deserve.

All day tomorrow I am going to lavish my son with love and attention....as much as he can humanly bear...and I'm going to do it because I love him...and I'm going to do it in honor of that dear sweet baby ... and send all the love his way.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
As part of the Family Advocacy Program, the Army makes us attend a briefing at least once a year that deals with child and spouse abuse. The slide show is the worst part. The ones that really get to me are the pictures of little toddlers with black eyes, like somone socked them right in the chops.

I have been frustrated with my kids before, any parent can tell you there are things kids do that can drive a sane person up a wall, but I just don't know what happens to somone to flip that switch in their head, turning them from a human being into a monster.

After that brief, I just wanted to go home and hug my kids.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
As part of the Family Advocacy Program, the Army makes us attend a briefing at least once a year that deals with child and spouse abuse. The slide show is the worst part. The ones that really get to me are the pictures of little toddlers with black eyes, like somone socked them right in the chops.


Whew, I don't think I could handle a slide show like that. Pictures like that would probably send me into catatonic shock. The fact that someone felt the need to collect pictures like that...merely to drive it into the heads of some numbskulls who might otherwise be capable of committing such acts of atrocity...makes me sick to my stomach.


After that brief, I just wanted to go home and hug my kids.

I agree, hearing about stuff like this makes me want to give my son a big hug. He deserves love, love, LOVE. Every child deserves more love than any human is capable of doling out.

I wish that all the love that's in the world could be distributed evenly, so that those who are in short supply could be showered with love anyway. Showered on kids whose parents don't love them. It's unfathomable to me,
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