Just discussed today with someone from...

... the local child protection service. They told me a bit about the children they put under protection. A lot of them have suffered from physical or psychological abuse, or neglect from a parent, due to drug or alcohol abuse or any other reason. But only very few of them, I've been told, have suffered from sexual abuse. So, what does it mean? Is sexual abuse not reported, or just not real? It makes one wonder about the figures we are told about 1 out of 5 kids having been abused, or whatever the current ratio them fearmongers like to spread in mass media... I guess in reality there are more BLs than child sexual abuse, even if one includes consensual sex between minors and adults in the figures. And a lot of kids suffer from neglect and violence, because too many scared BLs don't dare approach and love boys who would need them anymore. Not throwing the stone at any BL here... It's only sensible to be cautious in such a hysterical culture. I'm certainly not a dare-devil myself, and have probably let down more boys than I should have. What's more, a lot of perfectly valid BLs have even been prohibited to have any contact with kids due to over-repressive policies, unfortunately. But kids still need people to love them, and some parents inevitably will fail to their mission. Who kids can turn to, then? Bureaucrats? Underpaid social workers? It looks like a solution for disaster, I'm afraid... That's just my feeling, though... What do you think? Lots of happy boys to you, FF mi lon. mute mije lili kin li lon. o sina kute e mi, mi ala wile, pilin pona mi li anpa e pilin ante.