well for those of you that don't know i work at a battered women's shelter. so not only do you have to be a woman and be homeless...but you have to have been beaten or threatened by your significant other.
things have been slow around the shelter since i started oct 6th. i knew it was going to pick up when the holidays got closer. we went from 3 women and 2 kids down to 2 women. then yesterday we went up to 5 women and 3 kids. all the kids 2 and younger. two of the women are so young! and way too young to have been in an abusive relationship! but you would be surprised at how common that is! a couple of months ago a teenager i worked with at mcdonalds (a senior) was attacked in her home by her boyfriend...he broke in while she was sleeping and was trying to strangle her and smoother her with a pillow! this is in high school! it's so sad. i think it's just another poignant reminder at how depraved our society is.
for one thing i believe we are born innately bad. i mean seriously...who has ever told their kid to hit someone or take something...didn't think so. it's their nature. it's passed on to every human at birth, like it or not.
second thing i believe is that a lot of kids do not have good role models displaying healthy relationships. and i know they don't get it from the music we hear or the tv/movies we watch. they don't even know what a so called healthy relationship looks like...and i dare to say that most adults don't either. and if they do happen to know what they look like they don't know how to develop them. i was astonished when i read that 1 in 5 teenage girls who have been in a serious relationship report being hit, slapped, or pushed by a partner (www.loveisrespect.org)! that's just teenagers! and with technology today, things can get real ugly. kids posting intimate videos and violent videos on youtube...sending that junk in emails and text messaging. it was hard being a teenager when i was young. so i can't imagine what it's like now.
didn't mean to get on a soap box...but it's just sad. sad the way people choose to live. the way people choose to behave. the way they choose to treat others. the way others disrespect themselves and others. anyway...
me and my sister are taking my niece and 3 friends to see twilight tonight. i know a lot people are just pumped up silly about this movie, but can't say i'm one of them. i didn't read the book...i'm not a big reader. but my niece and sister loved the series. this movie better be good!
saturday night i have a dinner/auction i'm suppose to go to for the shelter. not looking forward to that either lol. i'm just not the social butterfly i once was. i guess in the right setting i can be, but it's defiantly not a dinner that i'm suppose to dress up for!
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