Imagine That You Are a Child of Abuse or Neglect
Imagine, if you can, what it must feel like to wake up each morning not knowing if you will have food to eat. Your day begins and ends with an alcoholic or drug-addicted mother or father who only speaks to you in a screaming voice. You spend most of your day avoiding them, simply to keep yourself out of harms way.
Imagine, if you can, what it must feel like to go to sleep at night not knowing if you will be safe from an adult creeping into your room to sexually violate you in ways that you will never totally recover from. You find it hard to sleep for fear of what will happen if you let your guard down.
Imagine, if you can, what it must feel like to be a child whose mother prostitutes herself daily while in a drug-induced state in the place that you call home. Men and women coming in at all hours of the day and night, buying drugs, selling drugs, and violating you - the child - in ways that will change who you are forever.
It's no wonder that our community's children and teens - here, in GREENVILLE, SC - are at serious risk for physical health consequences, psychological consequences, behavioral consequences, and societal consequences. In order to succeed in life and be healthy, active members of our community, we must, as adults, allow every child to grow up in safe and nurturing homes. For many children, this home is PENDLETON PLACE!
Pendleton Place, Inc. - P.O. Box 10323 - Greenville, SC 29603
Phone: (864) 467-3646 / Fax: (864) 467-3645
www.pendletonplace.org
