Quoting AilaLynn:

I just recently watched a movie based on a partially true story that was a book first. It is called 'Martian Child'. It is about a boy who was abandoned and abused and is in a foster care system. In order to be able to deal and cope with the emotional pain of the things he had suffered at a young age, the boy would pretend he was a martian and I think truly beleived he was one.
 
Some people my not like the movie, some people may. To me it was heartwrenching. Knowing that a child feels so out of place and so different than those around him that he feels alienated and unable to be accepted. Yes, the boy in the movie is based on a real life boy.
 
so I looked up the Children's Bureau of the Department of Health and Human Services and the statistics show that in 2008 68,000 children were never adopted in that year in America alone. Imagine how many around the world never get adopted each year.
 
It breaks my heart that children have to go through the stuff that adults put them through, and then never get adopted. They probably think they are not worthy of being loved when that is not true at all. I sat here and cried and cried and cried for a good hour..In fact I am starting to tear up again as I write this. I wish I could adopt all thosechildren who need a home and love. Children are so precious, they hold the future in their hands and their minds, I adore the way they ask things so bluntly and are so curious, I love how their minds work.
 
I do not understand why people can hurt children as they do and not have an ounce of remorse for it. How can a person look at a child and not want to love him or her with all their hearts? I look at my daughter and I feel like I could die from exploding with all the love for her that I have. I look at her and she is my world, my everything, and all that runs through my veins and everything that I am would not be complete without her....so how can a parent not feel that and end up doing things to their kids that has them placed in foster care?
 
Ugh it really really really kills me so badly that I cannot do something to help all of these children. I do understand a lot of what they have gone through because I am a survivor of an abusive and traumatic childhood-early adulthood. I understand what it is like to question being worthy of love.
 
*sighs and shakes head*
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I just recently watched a movie based on a partially true story that was a book first. It is called 'Martian Child'. It is about a boy who was abandoned and abused and is in a foster care system. In order to be able to deal and cope with the emotional pain of the things he had suffered at a young age, the boy would pretend he was a martian and I think truly beleived he was one.
 
Some people my not like the movie, some people may. To me it was heartwrenching. Knowing that a child feels so out of place and so different than those around him that he feels alienated and unable to be accepted. Yes, the boy in the movie is based on a real life boy.
 
so I looked up the Children's Bureau of the Department of Health and Human Services and the statistics show that in 2008 68,000 children were never adopted in that year in America alone. Imagine how many around the world never get adopted each year.
 
It breaks my heart that children have to go through the stuff that adults put them through, and then never get adopted. They probably think they are not worthy of being loved when that is not true at all. I sat here and cried and cried and cried for a good hour..In fact I am starting to tear up again as I write this. I wish I could adopt all thosechildren who need a home and love. Children are so precious, they hold the future in their hands and their minds, I adore the way they ask things so bluntly and are so curious, I love how their minds work.
 
I do not understand why people can hurt children as they do and not have an ounce of remorse for it. How can a person look at a child and not want to love him or her with all their hearts? I look at my daughter and I feel like I could die from exploding with all the love for her that I have. I look at her and she is my world, my everything, and all that runs through my veins and everything that I am would not be complete without her....so how can a parent not feel that and end up doing things to their kids that has them placed in foster care?
 
Ugh it really really really kills me so badly that I cannot do something to help all of these children. I do understand a lot of what they have gone through because I am a survivor of an abusive and traumatic childhood-early adulthood. I understand what it is like to question being worthy of love.
 
*sighs and shakes head*
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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