Community Service

There are a lot of issues that you hear about in the news such as the Iraq war, abuse, security, unemployment, and homelessness. Whether or not we realize it, all these issues affect us in our everyday life. I'm going to focus on the issue of sexual abuse. According to Sexual Abuse and Incest, one out of four females is sexually abused by the time she reaches the age of 18, with about 75 percent of the perpetrators being family members. And to go along with that, one out of 5 males is sexually abused by age 18. This is a serious problem and epidemic in the world. It is just sad to think about child sexual abuse because they are put through a lot of pain and carry it the rest of their life. It is also sad to say, but abuse happens all the time when it shouldn't be happening at all. Many people are trying to address the problem of sexual abuse and child sexual abuse. For one thing many states are making harsher punishments for the perpitrators such as longer sentences. Also for the children and other sexual abuse victims, there are a lot of therapy treatments to help them get over what has happened to them. Trauma Recovery is a website that has some possible treatments for survivors of sexual abuse and their traumatic experience. If you are in need of help you should check out this website and get some pointers to help in your recovery. One thing i have thought of for people like me and you to make a difference is to just be observant. If one of our friends are acting weird or shy and seem to be shutting the world out, we should take that as a hint that something isn't right. The issue might not be that they are being sexualy abused but we need to talk with that person and try to find the problem and help them out. Often people who are sexually abused will not tell anyone but we as people need to be concerned when it comes to an issue like this. The best thing we can do is to get the victim to be honest and to somehow get help with their situation. Sexual abuse is a big problem in the world and needs to be addressed. Hopefully we will all see a decline in the number of sexual abuse cases in the future.