Despite a severe case of shaky leg, the interview went well. So well, in fact, that the host tried to recruit me.
I don't really like radio, but it was cool being in the studio with flashing lights showing how many seconds until air time and hearing the host's voice change from normal and friendly into his booming, blustering News, Weather and Sports Voice.
The doc is airing tomorrow and then our fifteen minutes of fame will be over. But I'll always look back at this part of my life and be proud of what my team created.
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6 comments:
Good for you! Glad it went well. :)
I always knew you'd be famous. :)
"So well...that the host tried to recruit me"
go get em, tiger. fake it til ya make it.
"our fifteen minutes of fame will be over"
careful what you wish for, sis.
besitos carino, ciao.
Michelle,
The show was a 30 min documentary on child abuse. We wove the stories of two adult survivours together, while explaining the signs, causes, and impacts abuse makes on the abused and on society as a whole.
It is a haunting doc, full of gritty details and little hope. Did you know one in three children experience some form of abuse in their young lives?
We did the doc as a gift for a local children's foundation and hope it will raise awareness and money, and help promote change.
JLM,
Child abusers do deserve the harshest penalties the laws allow, but, as I learned in my research for the documentary, the problem is far too complex for harsher punshiments to have a real impact.
The problem is that child abuse hurts children so much it damages them for the rest of their lives. Once they've been abused, they've learned how to abuse. And they've learned how terrible it feels to be helpless and afraid.
So when abused children become bullies on the playground, and grow into abusive parents or family friends, in a way it's not really their fault. They've been so broken they don't know how to deal with the situations in their lives.
Think I'm wrong? Here are some of the facts:
-most abusers were abused
-85 per cent of women in Canadian prisons have been abused at some point in their lives
-men who were abused are three times more likely to end up in prison than non-abused men
Doesn't really look like have much chance for a normal, healthy life after being abused, does it?
It's a huge problem and further discipline of the abused, for acting the way they've been socialized to act, is not effective and doesn't change the cycle of abuse.
We interviewed a woman who was abused from the time she was born. She was hit with belts, 2 by 4s, hangers, thrown downstairs, called names, and became a prostitute at age 14.
She stabbed two of her partners, because abused people tend to end up in abusive relationships, and said when she would be hurting others, even spanking her own children, she would blank out, remember what had happened to her in her childhood, get angry and feel helpless, and continue to hurt the person she was taking her anger out on.
Is it her fault that her soul was damaged that badly? Obviously not. So when she acts violently towards others, is she responsible for that? Yes, we all have choices, but some are more free to make the right ones.
When the abused grow up to become abusers, despite their best intentions, there are enormous social problems, far too big for harsher punishments to make a difference.
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