Not only are we, as a society, allowing our children to be robbed of their emotional and mental development and growth, through our choices of technological babysitters, but we are encouraging it, intentionally or not, and it's time we made changes for the children we have brought into this world. We can no longer afford having our children raised by machines. We need to take back the ownership of parenting, and look squarely into the blood and guts of it all. Too often, some actual accounts of child abuse and neglect go unnoticed if they don't appear on the six o'clock news, or on-line, as newsworthy events go, these days. Too many of "our" children fall between the cracks, no matter how hard our social service systems work. Many services and supports are provided, at local county as well as, state and federal levels, but no one can be on watch 24 hours every single day, while our children may fall prey to possible, unspeakable horrors in their daily lives, not only by strangers, but by the very people that are supposed to be their protectors. Inside this journal is a collection of real cases, about our nation's greatest shame-our precious child victims. I have written this in hopes of spreading awareness of the growing problem, so that in that awareness, a child can be saved. I share their unfair plights, so that you, too, can become more aware that these children are real and in need of help. This is my social worker's journal of children who entered the foster care system on my watch, and who in essence, became my heroes.
