Thursday, 02/27/03 - 3:37 pm.
When I read the newspapers, and some news in particular, I often think of the emotional damage in people.
The newspapers are always filled with violence and death. I read about a girl that was raped by his stepfather, a family whose house burned down, an elderly mother asking for any information about his lost son, a man who lost his leg in a car accident, three siblings that got merciless beat down by his mom, a little girl that died of starvation, a young woman that was sexually assaulted by a gang, a 10 year old girl that got pregnant when a stranger raped her and everybody around her thinks of whether go for abortion or not, a father that watched his son being murdered, a father that took away the children from their mother, a mother that got her daughter into prostitution because the family needed money to survive...
And all of those people, here and there, are news.
I never hear of them again. They're just victims and they make it to the newspapers, ocassionally to TV. And then I never hear of them again.
And I just start thinking that, beyond the article that tomorrow will be yesterday's news, those people, those victims will have to live (even if sometimes they get "professional help") emotionally damaged for a long, long time.
And then I wonder if somebody else has thought about this.
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