This is my statement as a 77-year-old survivor of severe childhood abuse.
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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