Happy First International Day of the Girl Child

Today is the first International Day of the Girl Child - a day designated by the United Nations last year. We need this day to recognize girl's rights. Why?  Because sadly:

• There are 67 million children that are not in school. More than half of these children are girls.


• In developing countries, most girls never receive a check-up or see a doctor.


• Almost 50 percent of all sexual assaults are against girls 15 or younger.


• In many developing countries, a girl may have to marry young and take care of her older husband and her own children. (girlup.org)

We need an International Day of the Girl Child because today, Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani activist who refused to stop going to school despite intimidation from the Taliban, campainged for the right of girls to get an education, and blogged for the BBC, was shot in the head on her way to school. She was shot in the head for going to school, for demanding access to education, for being brave.

Virtue

this will be post 1 of 2 today from me.  as i was getting ready this morning, I realized that this was something I HAD to write about.

Whenever I heard the word "virtue", it would often make me think of old British ladies in the time of Jane Eyre telling young girls, "Don't let the young chap steal your virtue".  If you look up virtue in any dictionary, it is defined as "moral excellence.  A virtue is a positive trait or quality subjectively deemed to be morally excellent and thus valued as a foundation of principle and good moral value." (Source: Wikipedia).

I follow an anti-pornography group on Facebook called Voices for Virtue.  A video was recently posted by another follower on Facebook about a woman named Dawn Hawkins who is executive director for an anti-pornography non-profit, Morality in Media.  (The MiM website has been shut down due to many hacking attempts).  She posted a YouTube video about her recent experience on a Delta flight she took from Baltimore to Detroit, where she witnessed a man viewing extremely violent child-themed porn on the flight.  No one said anything to this man.  Seriously?  Ms. Hawkins is suffering severe backlash for standing up to this and the video on YouTube has over 20,000 dislikes and threats have been made against her LIFE!  WHAT?!  You are joking, right?  I have always known that pornography is going to be the downfall of mankind, socially and morally.  What has been a sick habit done in secret, is now done openly in public.  Adult porn viewed by adults is one thing but child porn?  Crimes against children are the most abhorrent, disgusting, vile sicknesses of our time.  Adults are supposed to protect children, not victimize them.  We have enough ill-will in this world why attack the most innocent of God's creations?  I am outraged.