May 2012 Challenge: Education Evolves. Teen Talks

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The number one constant in date rape... A-L-C-O-H-O-L! True! There is never an invitation nor an excuse to rape. Still don't heighten the chance. 

AEF offers education that evolves as our children grow. Teach teenagers about the dangers of under-age alcohol consumption. 

Alcohol consumption can cause confusion, impaired senses, unconsciousness and coma.

Set the Scene: An underage, drunk teenage girl at an unsupervised party. Not wishing to engage in sexual activity, is passed around a room full of boys with raging hormones. She never says no and can't quite distinguish just how many of her male peers are involved. A few weeks later she is ill. Sick at the sight of things and nauseaus at their smell. Her mother suspects the worse and it is. At 14, her daughter is pregnant. Who's to blame? A teenage girl for attending the party? The teenage boy for taking advangtage of the situation? Or the parents for not warning all minors of the dangers of alcohol consumption? 

As always, each challenge, is one I not only vow to take, but solemly do so each and every month. My daughters have yet to reach teenage-dom. But my son is of the perfect age for this talk! Work and driving will soon be two priveldges he is to partake in. With these new milestones come different freedoms.... Time this education evolves. Time for another teen talk!! 

Remember---

1 in 4 girls/1 in 6 boys will be the victim of sexual assault before their 18th birthday. 

Child sexual abuse is a senseless crime. One that is avoidable. Yes it is real, but it is not incurable. The solution resides with each of us. Spread the word. Take the challenge. Become aware. Let others know of your knowledge. Happy May

April Challenge: Simpy Repost, Retweet, Repeat

"Never judge what you don't understand." ~Zane

Hard to explain to someone who has no clue. It's a daily struggle being in pain or feeling sick on the inside while you look fine on the outside. Please put this as your status for at least 1 hour if you or someone you know has an invisible illness (PTSD, Anxiety, Bipolar, Depression, Diabetes, CROHNS, LUPUS, Fibromyalgia, MS, ME, NF, Arthritis, Cancer, Heart Disease, Epilepsy, Autism,M.D., Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Sickle Cell Disease, etc...)

Adding to this list of invisible diseases, child sexual abuse. 

Usually unsuspected, the perpetrator goes unpunished and the victim is left with a lifetime of pain. Invisible scars, not the physical ones that fade, but the mental and emotional ones. Statistics state that 1 in 4 females will be sexually abused before her 18th birthday. I keep counting the 'her's and 'she's that reside within my circle. 100's of us. I know i'm not the only one, Angel Eyes: A Collective Memoir of Child Sexual Abuse is testimony to that. But how much longer must my 'sister's remain hidden, Invisible. My heart breaks not for the pain we've endured, but because some are still too afraid, too ashamed to speak out! How can the cycle stop.................................?

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