Quote Originally Posted by python.princess View Post
and, btw, jo~ kudos to you for your hard work helping those women and children! i used to be one of those children. my mom never got help until i was long out of the picture. it took a very extreme situation for her to finally get help. she's actually been in hiding for the last couple years now. without people like you, my little sisters (twins) would've been sold on the black market if they didn't die from a meth explosion first... like i said, extreme. but thank you again! the world needs more people like you!
You're welcome hon. I never actually planned to work in that field. I literally took a summer job with them and became very hooked into the need for women to stand for and with other women. It was a crazy job sometimes especially in a small northern community where most people owned guns and knew how to use them. A lot of my neighbours never actually knew where I worked which was just safer and saner for everybody. When you do that sort of work you need to keep work and home very far apart. I don't work in the field anymore. It's a job that burns you out eventually no matter how much you love it, it just takes from you in the end.

I'm very glad your mother found her way out and your sisters are now safe. I'm so very sorry you had to endure it growing up. No person, adult or child, should live in fear in their own home. That's just obscene to me - home should mean safety and love, not fear and danger.

To those reading this thread. You don't have to work in a shelter to help. Every shelter needs things....money, clothing, toys, books, dvd's, phone cards, diapers, really almost anything. Most women and kids come into violence shelters with only the clothes on their backs, sometimes only in their pj's. If you have something to give they'll find someone that can use it, believe me.