ds losing text//steved/Millions of children r victims of violence & exploitation ... emotional abuse
just made a long response to the other journal and ds lost the whole thing "service unavailable" what the hell!
"Millions of children are victims of violence and exploitation. They are physically and emotionally vulnerable and they can be scarred for life by mental or emotional abuse.
That is why children should always have the first claim on our attention and resources.
They must be at the heart of our thinking on challenges we are addressing on a daily basis.
We know what to do, and we know how to do it. The means are at hand, it is up to us to seize the opportunity and build a world that is fit for children."
Lindsey Lohan
"Millions of children are victims of violence and exploitation. They are physically and emotionally vulnerable and they can be scarred for life by mental or emotional abuse.
That is why children should always have the first claim on our attention and resources.
They must be at the heart of our thinking on challenges we are addressing on a daily basis.
We know what to do, and we know how to do it. The means are at hand, it is up to us to seize the opportunity and build a world that is fit for children."
Lindsey Lohan
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I lose stuff and it says \"Zero sized object\". Always wondered how any object can be zero sized, but if anybody can do it, DS can! xo
same here. it makes no sense and this has gone on FOR YEARS now.
it just did it again! hope this saved!
In Russia, alllll kids come first and everything is geared to give the child as much as possible. A lot of countries are like this. The Scandinavian system is even better, they supply income to children and guarantee jobs for them after they turn 18 and to age 25. The government \"raises\" their kids, nothing is left just to \"parents/parent figures\".
Its amazing that we are a \"civilized\" country and we have NONE of this.
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So, i\'m reading through his stories on facebook, the one that is bullied by his much younger sister for his entire life. she even went after his wife and two of his kids. he went to JAIL because of her. his wife HATED this woman (and should). she even said to him, i don\'t see any value in this, its more loss than gain, what is the point? his response was well, you have your siblings...and she\'s like, my siblings don\'t attack me and anything i own or do. and he scowls. i think he was so BRAINWASHED to forgive ANYTHING that he just goes with it. he should have joined a cult, they live the same way. its ridiculous!
then relatives of their\'s who i KNOW couldn\'t stand her, but put up with her, because she was blood. when she moved back up north, her brother warned her, they don\'t want you back and she said it took three years and TONS of buying gifts for their kids, to be accepted and then she wouldn\'t take her meds and commit all kinds of crime against their own family. they say in his page that he created for her! wth! they miss her too. and i\'m thinking, this is so much total shit! boy, do people go through life with rose colored glasses and bulshit on. they spent their entire lives AVOIDING her and seeing her only when they absolutely HAD to. she was typical bipolar/schizophrenic and completely underhanded and vicious when not on medication. a totally horrible person. you could rely on her to go to a concert and that is it. rely on her to what? get stoned daily, that is how she lived. to show up at family parties. her own church banned her from showing up and her cousin\'s church did the same because at fashion shows she robbed people. seriously!
and i think to myself. am i missing something here or what. in my book, when you are out, you are out. and ONE THEFT is enough for the person to be out and hey, lets move to another country if that is what it takes to be away from this freak. or why not have an accident happen here. when he and his wife had their housewarming for the house they just got, she STOLE the mail so people wouldn\'t know they were invited. she was that kind of underhanded. she broke in after their baby shower and went through the baby\'s gifts and brought back whatever gifts SHE didn\'t like. if you won things at the church festivals, she would break into your car and steal your prizes. seriously!
he says, his sister had serious mental troubles and a lot of it was caused by his mother, if not genetic, because she and her sister TAUGHT her and her cousin to steal. if they were caught stealing at a public place, they blamed the kids, even if they didn\'t do it and thought this was fun. then they would shower them with presents to make up for it. crazy shit. he always said, his sister never had a chance because of the way she was (or wasn\'t) raised. totally sick. he wasn\'t raised that way and he just put up with the result of the mess. though if he gambled he was another thief like the rest of them.
i don\'t understand that kind of love or affection. to me, once you cross the line and commit crime, its OVER. that is it. you only live ONCE why put up with that kind of misery. i would say, he \"NEEDED\" his family, mostly because he was victimized by them, and if he could get away from them totally which he did by 1998 living 1500 miles away with his own wife, kids and wife\'s family nearby -- he no longer needed his own bad family from birth and most of them were dead by then, he was the lone survivor almost, except for cousins, who he rarely talked to anyway. let it go. but its still there. i really don\'t get that.
i understand there are different cultures. and i understand \"mental things\" exist. but not the rest. to me, its let it rest in peace, at best. but to say you MISS this horrible person? it makes no sense. she would cry over what she did, after she took her meds, but off her meds she was a total lunatic, well-masked. his parents always managed to have a spacious home, plenty of food, nice clothing, all the things that leave it to beaver would have had. but it was a MASK, what was really going on there was something out of a crime novel and he MISSES her? and there is GENERATIONS of that with that family. why bother. let it end. put it to rest. that is the positive of death. anytime any crime would happen that was similarly zany, he would have this, SEE its not just his family kind of an attitude.
i agree. there are crazy people everywhere, but once they cross the line to commiting real crime, its OVER.
another example was christmas one year. we were sitting around in their pretty living room with louis xIv furniture, and they have a baby grand piano. we are playing it and singing carols, which in most homes (back then) is normal. steved was there and he is sitting there saying, i don\'t believe this! i said to his wife, don\'t you always do this. and he says NO, really mad. this is before i knew anything else goes on there. his father says, this is nice. and i\'m thinking here i am in gangsterville again, as an ex of mine, had family like that, only around certain others did they act like a family, other than that it was totally grinch. worse than steved. so he says, no, we are somewhere between the grinch and a christmas carol. and his cousin says, no. and he insists, maybe slightly better at your house, but yes it is, it may LOOK like hallmark, but its the furthest thing from it. it was pretty funny and crazy and back then i didn\'t know and had no idea what he was talking about. i get it now.
how can you \"get\" all that, and then still say, you miss this one or that one. lets be honest. you are lucky they are gone. they were a thorn in your side. they destroyed more than anything else. its more like, finally peace rather than rest in peace. just being honest. isn\'t it?
if i were around he\'d say half sarcastic, aren\'t you going to play. and i would get right to it. his father would crack up. it was fun. those are good memories, but the bad still outweighs it. HUGE actually.
actually that\'s not clear, it would be the movie a christmas carol, with alistair sim at the very beginning the two maids stealing from the dead \"sim\" and whispering who gets what, that would be his mother and aunt, they actually DO that and worse. and the grinch, which is more stealing even though its a holiday....and with a little arsenic and old lace in there, for the \"appearance\" of warmth, as they poison your drinks, but that was his sister doing that. wth? she claimed she thought alllll family\'s are like that, since her family was. r u kidding me?!
this becomes more grusome because s had hepititis c, since he was a teenager. he never told his wife apparently...NO ONE told his wife, though when she came down with it herself, it was total chaos and s said she knew, but they all lie so much, how can you know for sure? she died from complications of hepititis and he has had surgery and meds from hepititis attacking his other organs, like his liver. his wife died a few years ago from it. what i want to know, is did he let ANY of his girlfriends know he had this highly contagious and deadly disease for all those years. hard to believe anyone would be around him with it. wth? when his wife got it they acted like they BLAMED her and he says to them, you forget he has it. so he KNEW AND?!!! its never been clear about that.
then his cousin g, insisted that the wife DIDN\'T know and s was just saying that she knew, to save face. realllllly sick if that is true. she died 20 years after marrying him. tragic.