The statistics are startling when it comes to missing children. A recent U.S. Department of Justice national incidence study found that annually there are as many as 114,600 attempted abductions of children by non-family members, and 438,200 children are lost, injured, or otherwise missing. The same study reports that annually 450,700 children run away, and 354,000 children are abducted by family members.

NCMEC (NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN).
1-800-843-5678
(1-800-THE-LOST)

Links to very informative sites.

Human Violence and Animal Cruelty Links - Links on this issue.
Violence Begins at Home
Debbie's Page

The Human Society of United States
A.S.H. Program Safe Haven for animal victims of Domestic Abuse.

The experts agree, it starts at home; THERE IS A LINK BETWEEN ANIMAL CRUELTY AND HUMAN VIOLENCE. Read below, then check some of the links to the right. Also, see the links to my pages on abuses, missing children and other concerns to the left.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
anthropologist Margaret Mead

(Animal cruelty) "is not a harmless venting of emotion in a healthy individual; this is a warning sign that this individual is not mentally healthy and needs some sort of intervention."
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Alan Brantley

The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated.
--Ghandi

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
--Albert Schweitzer

In 1995, the American Medical Association declared domestic violence the number one health care issue for women in the United States, resulting in more emergency room visits than car accidents, rapes and muggings combined.

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man.
~St. Francis of Assisi~

My Webpages on Abuse Awareness

Child Abuse Awareness 5 pages 
Please visit the page and also the links on it. 'One child abused is one too many.'

After The Choice (Pro-Life) 2 pages
The ultimate child abuse. Please visit this page and it's links. To read some of the testimonies and quotes from people in the abortion profession check out Eve's 'A Chasing of the Winds' and her After The Choice pages and visit her Rose Garden. Also visit Precious-Life. Read Cynthia's story and while there visit the Photo Gallery (if you think you can).

Domestic Abuse Awareness  3 pages.
I, too, was a victim of domestic abuse and still wear some of the emotional scars. This page is small, I guess because I'm not completely ready to face it head on. But do check out some of the links. I am planning to get more involved with this one, one day.  So do check back.