An ounce of prevention…

It’s easy to become overwhelmed with the statistics we hear each and every day.  Statistics report the rate of drug abuse, high school dropout rates, and the occurrence of violent crime in America.  What if we could find a way to improve a large number of these depressing statistics by identifying, isolating, exposing, and preventing one of the root causes?  Would it be worth the ounce of prevention to prevent the pounds of cure our society must administer each and every day dealing with the fallout from child cruelty? 

Behind each statistic is a human life.  As incidents of child cruelty mount, one by one, these personal horror stories accumulate to give us statistics.  We can focus on the numbers, like the 1,700+ American children killed each year because of cruelty, or the survivors of abuse, neglect and cruelty that require billions of dollars in mental health counseling, or we can focus in on the individual stories, as gut wrenching as they may be.  Statistics can be depressing, but the individual stories that are associated with these statistics are too much for most of us to hear….so we tend to avoid reality and look the other way.  That can be more comfortable for us as individuals, but the problem doesn’t go away. It only continues to escalate.

The American SPCC was founded to prevent child cruelty on a national level.  Instead of treating the unending supply of victims, we plan to dedicate our resources to reducing the number of victims our society produces.  With your support, we can save countless lives by preventing them from being destroyed in the first place.  Over time, we will show how an ounce of prevention can save thousands of young lives from being taken, not to mention the millions of American lives that will be fuller and richer without having to live with the scars of their childhood.  Get involved…

J.E. Henningsen – Founder