CSA Awareness Month

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Child Sexual Abuse Exists. CSA happens in almost every household irrespective of their social standing; happens equally to boys and girls. And the abuser is not necessarily a male. 

It does not matter if you are not a parent. The knowledge you gain today may save a hapless child tomorrow.

A few bloggers, have joined hands and started the Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Blog. Over the month of April 2011, a whole lot of bloggers and non-bloggers will be coming together to post on various aspects of Child Sexual Abuse in a bid to create awareness about an issue which affects over 50 per cent of children of the world. This, the Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Month April 2011, will run across their blogs as well as the CSA blog, In addition to these posts, the CSAAM blog will feature survivor stories, posts by experts and NGOs working in these fields.

Love Ladder inclusive of all who have joined hands hopes that this concerted effort will bring this topic of criminal offence out of the closet and teach parents how to educate their children about predators, preventing their children from being abused and knowing how to deal with your child, should such a situation arise or occur. Our children deserve a safe and happy childhood.

Come join us in the effort and keep our children child safe and make this a better world for them to experience. 

Here is how you can participate.

If you would like to add to the discussion or know somebody else who would, please note that we welcome entries 

• mailed to csa.awareness.april@gmail.com OR

• posted as FB notes and linked to Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Month Page OR

• posted on your own blog with the badge and linked to the main blog OR

• linked or posted on Twitter tagged twitter.com/CSAAwareness OR

 The list of topics is available here. Anonymous contributions are accepted and requests for anonymity will of course be honored. CSA will probably be hosting at least one guest post and encourage you to do the same for non-blogging friends.Please remember to send in a mail with all necessary links or just your input to csa.awareness.april@gmail.com so that we can track your contribution and make sure that it is not inadvertently lost or something. U can also support it simply by adding our the logo of the initiative in your blog’s sidebar.
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Being aware and informed is the key. Learn to recognise the signs and help a child. We, as adults owe it to them.

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A tear drop and a scar

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[By Aniruddha Pathak for Love Ladder]
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The apple of my eye
My darling sweetheart
I wish you spoke
I wish you told

How I wish I spoke
How I wish I cared
How I wish this was not just a wish
How I wish I had known

You still are my angel
My darling sweetheart
This body so blue
A tear drop and a scar

The lines above have been inspired by the recent suicide cases. It’s a cry from a mother to her child who has committed suicide.

The rise in the number of suicide cases by kids, teenagers, and even adults is a very sad reflection of what kind of pressures people in India are going through. I am not trying to justify the act, for I believe this is the most cowardly act one can do. However, I would rather make that comment for adults than kids. For, according to me, it is the responsibility of parents to ensure their child is not taking too much stress.

If we look at kids, the constant pressure by parents for studying (rote learning, if you will) rather than discovering things is driving them crazy these days. To top it all the increasing competition that their parents have gone through, has hard wired into the brain of parents that, if their child does not go through the same rigor he will fail. That is not true; a parent should only facilitate, and allow the children to explore their own skills and help them with things they like to do, rather than force them to do something they don’t want to. the sad part is that some kids are just aping the act by reading suicide stories in the news, how I wish parents would explain it to them the implications of such an act. At an impressionable age, the kids need to be handled more carefully and parents ought to find some time out from their busy schedule for them. Kids just need a little comfort to tell them that someone cares for them and will be there when they need support the most. The current trend of both parents working has not helped the cause much. The child at home needs to release stress, and I hope parents realize this problem soon. Problem arises when parents are not even ready to accept that there is a problem, that their constant nagging is not helping the child. Being more sensitive and aware to the child’s need is the need of the hour.

The teens are undergoing another set of pressure to deal with. On one hand it’s the constant peer pressure to stay the coolest looking dude/dudette in college, and on the other hand is the constant pressure from parents to study. At times an extra push in terms of a failed relationship or failure in college is enough to drive them to take the final step. I mean how does one explain the college students setting themselves on fire for the cause of Telangana? Sheer wicked politics to push these naive students into something like this. The only option left is to channelize the energy of youth into something which helps the society at large. You might laugh at the idea but I have seen the most degenerated of the teens being very passionate about working for the society; it does “give them a high”. There is immense talent available in these teens, and we, the society, fail every time we are unable to give them an environment to grow.

Adults committing suicide! Well, how cowardly an act can it be to not think about your loved ones, read parents, kids, wife, brothers, sisters and a whole lot of bunch of friends? I am at a loss of words when I read about these suicide cases. There is just one beautiful life to live and they have not done any good to themselves by not fighting hard enough. One should always think about how fortunate they are to be living and having people around them who love them, because out there, there are probably millions who are not that fortunate.

Suicide is not a solution! If after reading this I have touched you, and some how made you think once again about the dreaded step, my job is done.

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