Texas Beaten Future

My comment is on Soheb's, "Can we stop Child Abuse in Central Texas?" Everyone hates to see parents beating up their child or hear about families being torn apart on the news. I detest people who neglect or abuse their most precious gift in life and that is the ability to give life, especially since the kids in the story, are from Texas. I agree with Soheb and dislike very much the large number of 1,509 deaths of reported cases of neglect and abuse. Now these deaths only include the numbers from 2001 to 2007 that are reported, im sure there are hundreds maybe thousands more, that neighbors or family members didnt report to a higer authority or the police. It is required by Texas and federal law that minors attend school, in all these cases, i wonder if the teachers or the friends of these kids ever notice the signs of abuse? Students spend a tremendous of time at school and are seen five times a week by their teacher or by the faculty who are all considerd as role models by the community. I think we should train teachers and students signs of child abuse or neglect, also having a teacher parent meeting not only helps the relationship between parent and teacher, but also demonstrates to your child that you care about their future. I am actually a little surprised that Texas made the program Relief Nursery of Central Texas in 2006 and not any time sooner, knowing that the number of abuses was twice the size then any other state. I think facilities like the Relief Nursery of Central Texas is a good start, but we can do better than that as Texans. Just by asking out own kids simple questions such as, how was school today? Or did anything interesting happen to you today? These questions can lead to a closer look at your child's life and who he is surrounded by whether it's a good friend or a strange friend who is always quiet. Child abuse can be happening right now, next door at your neighbor's house and we wouldn't even know it. Every ten hours 80 kids are abused here in Texas, it would be great if we could drop the numbers of abuse from double to at least average. Here in Texas we all love big things, but the large numbers of child abuse is not something to be proud of and is quite shameful, now my question to you is, will you help a child when they need help or will you let the numbers keep going up?