THE ISSUE: Every year over 3 million children are victims of violence and almost 1.8 million are abducted. Nearly 600,000 children live in foster care. Every day 1 out of 7 kids and teens are approached online by predators, 1 out of 4 kids are bullied and 42% of kids are cyberbullied. THE SOLUTION: PREVENTION! Getting to the root of the cause through education and changing behaviors and attitudes. Loving and nurturing children. Stopping Violence BEFORE it starts -- creating happy and healthy children ... Keeping Children Safe
How Can You Help? In the next minute a child will be a victim of violence or neglect.
Love Our Children USA™ is the national nonprofit leader in breaking the cycle of violence against children. The organization has become 'the Go-To' prevention organization for all forms of violence and neglect against children in the U.S.
Since 1999, Love Our Children USA has paved the way in the prevention of violence and neglect against children … keeping children safe and strengthening families.
Love Our Children USA eliminates behaviors that keep kids from reaching their potential. We redefine parenting and create kid success with prevention strategies and positive changes in parenting and family attitudes and behaviors through public education. Honoring and respecting children of all ages ... empowering and supporting kids, teens, parents and families through information, resources, advocacy and online mentoring. Our goal is to keep children safe and strengthen families -- Our message is positive ... one of prevention, empowerment and hope.
The funds we receive go towards: Assisting Children and Families with Information and Resources, Public Education, Community Outreach and Awareness, Youth For Youth Partnership, National Love Our Children Day, Bullying and Cyberbullying Prevention, Internet Safety, Positive Parenting Education, National District Attorney's Child Protection Task Force, Darko Rapotez Memorial College Scholarship Fund For Aged Out Foster Youth, National Block Parenting Progam, Youth Safety Programs, a Wish Program for child victims and foster kids, creating a 24 Hour Toll-Free Hotline, Speaker Bureaus and Advocacy. Funds enable us to produce and distribute over 35 guides for parents and children, maintain and enhance our extensive web resources, conduct the necessary research to help us focus on the trends of violence against children and produce effective anti-violence messages.
Love Our Children USA is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit and relies upon the generous DONATIONS of individuals, corporations and foundations in order to provide programs that help keep children safe.
Over 3 Million Children Need You Now! They are the child victims ... the ONLY ones that have been reported! The actual number of child victims is 3 times greater!
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Abuse, neglect, abandonment, violence and abduction ... these tragic realities are what many children in America live with. Sadly, violence and neglect towards children is nothing new ... it is deeply rooted in cultural and religious values.
We must nurture our children ...it is one of the important things we can do. A parents' love and caring determines how a child grows up and how a child will eventually parent.
Adults can nurture children's positive self-esteem by helping them discover what they are good at doing. Part of a child's self esteem comes from feeling competent and skilled at something they enjoy. By creating opportunities for children to explore different objects, activities, and people ... and nurturing those interests, you can play a big role in helping children to be successful and feel good about themselves. To Read More
TALKING TO KIDS ABOUT WAR
First our children had to deal with the shock of the September 11th terrorist attacks... now they have war to deal with!
As we face difficult times it is imperative that we do not overlook our children who are frightened and scared. And we must not overlook our children who are at risk and peril on a daily basis... and at even greater risk in times of stress.
The traumatic impact of war has verwhelmed our nation. No matter what our beliefs are - we must support our troops and we must pay even more attention to our children. We must be there for them, to answer questions, to show love, caring and support... we must ease their fears.
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Love Our Children USA wishes to express our sincerest gratitude and thanks to the following:
L2R Creative for their incredible generosity by donating this Web site.
Platinum Design for their incredible generosity by donating our logo design.
Mark Segal, Mark Segal Photography for his incredible generosity by donating some of the photography on this Web site.
Solidspace.com for their incredible generosity by donating the hosting of our web sites.
