When you think about child abuse what do you think of? I am a little embarrassed to admit that I think about movies where it’s easy to spot, or a broken foster care system or a million other things that don’t include my friends and I. Why? I don’t know, I guess I’m lucky enough to say that I don’t face that problem so I used to think neither did the people close to me. But when I started looking into the topic I realized how close minded I was being, I didn’t think of different types of abuse, that it’s not just physical, but also verbal, sexual and emotional. I learned that 32% of Canadian adults reported that they had faced child abuse growing up, and that’s only including the one’s that come forward! I broke that down a little deeper in terms of what that means to me... I wrote down the first 10 names that popped up into my head: family, friends, even a classmate. Statistically at least 3 people on that list would have faced some form of abuse. I started to question how safe of an environment I was creating for those people to come forward, or even broach the topic to me. Was I open? Was I creating that safe space they may need? What was I doing to show support to anyone and everyone in my life whether they need it or not? By opening my mind I started to change my mindset. I encourage you after reading this to do the same, it might not come fast or easily but every single one of us need to start opening our mind.
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