{"id":934,"date":"2012-03-28T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totellyouthetruth.net\/?p=934"},"modified":"2012-03-28T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T12:00:38","slug":"preventing-orphan-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Preventing Orphan Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, orphan care is necessary.  More than 100,000 orphans are waiting to be adopted in the U.S. right now.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, many circumstances are beyond the child&#8217;s control but more to the point, many circumstances are beyond the control of parents.<\/p>\n<p>But much of the control is within the control of the parents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect. Over 3 million reports of child abuse are made every year in the United States; however, those reports can include multiple children. In 2007, approximately 5.8 million children were involved in an estimated 3.2 million child abuse reports and allegations.&#8221; via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childhelp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ChildHelp.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/totellyouthetruth.net\/images\/graph-child-deaths.jpg\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds<\/li>\n<li>Almost five children die every day as a result of child abuse. More than three out of four are under the age of 4<\/li>\n<li>It is estimated that between 60-85% of child fatalities due to maltreatment are not recorded as such on death certificates<\/li>\n<li>90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator in some way; 68% are abused by family members<\/li>\n<li>Child abuse occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all religions and at all levels of education<\/li>\n<li>31% percent of women in prison in the United States were abused as children<\/li>\n<li>Over 60% of people in drug rehabilitation centers report being abused or neglectedas a child<\/li>\n<li>About 30% of abused and neglected childrenwill later abuse their own children,continuing the horrible cycle of abuse<\/li>\n<li>About 80% of 21 year old that were abused as children met criteria for at least one psychological disorder<\/li>\n<li>The estimated annual cost of child abuse and neglect in the United States for 2007 is $104 billion<\/li>\n<li>Abused children are 25% more likely to experience teen pregnancy<\/li>\n<li>Abused teens are 3 times less likely to practice safe sex, putting them at greater risk for STDs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more statistics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childhelp.org\/pages\/statistics\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of orphan care is not just about orphans; it&#8217;s about potential orphans, but <strong>more specifically parents who have the power to prevent children from becoming orphans<\/strong>.  It&#8217;s not just about children.  <strong>This is about parents who are being parents<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is why parents need the Gospel.  Because of the Gospel, &#8220;be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. &#8230; Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (Ephesians 5:1-2; 6:4).<\/p>\n<p>The Gospel changes everything even the prevention of doing orphan care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, orphan care is necessary. More than 100,000 orphans are waiting to be adopted in the U.S. right now. Yes, many circumstances are beyond the child&#8217;s control but more to the point, many circumstances are beyond the control of parents. But much of the control is within the control of the parents. &#8220;Children are suffering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[75],"tags":[339,361],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orphan-care","tag-orphan-care-2","tag-prevention"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3hM8I-f4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}