This is my statement as a 77-year-old survivor of severe childhood abuse.
It is time to retreat into solitude. Another equinox has arrived—just as it did seventy-seven years ago, and seven days later, I was born into a life already shaped by expectation, conditioned before I had the chance to choose.
Many of the people I encountered throughout my life were content with surface-level thinking—dismissive of truth or unaware of their own hidden pain—seeking escape in hollow amusement and easy laughter, leaving little of emotional or intellectual substance for future generations. I began to leave that world behind seven years ago. As expected, my way of thinking became the subject of circulating gossip—used as a tool of shaming against anyone who does not conform to the circle.
As long as my mind allows me to express thought and feeling, I feel compelled to write—to encourage others to find their own path, to live without seeking permission or applause from those who conceal self-deception through control and manipulation. The words I have gathered over time, through education and additional life experience, may seem to fade, but only briefly—they return, reshaped, flowing once more through the current of my thoughts.
What I have come to understand cannot be given to those who live only to impress others, while remaining caught in an unbroken cycle of unawareness—but it may offer encouragement to those in doubt, to begin their own journey of self-discovery.
If humanity does not want to erase its own future, child abuse must end now.
There can be no compromise, no tolerance, and no delay.
Those who abuse children must be permanently prevented from ever harming a child again through the strongest possible legal and protective measures.
Those who support, enable, conceal, or excuse child abuse must also be held fully accountable, because silence and complicity allow abuse to continue.
Child abuse destroys developing bodies and brains.
It causes permanent physical damage, neurological injury, and severe psychological trauma. It increases the risk of chronic illness, mental disorders, and premature death.
The effects do not end with one victim—they propagate across generations through lasting biological changes, trauma, and learned patterns of harm.
A society that fails to protect its children undermines its own survival.
Ending child abuse is not optional. It is an absolute moral, biological, and civilizational necessity.
There is overwhelming scientific evidence confirming these facts.
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