YouTube - Shocking Infant Mortality Rates in Woonsocket
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Infant mortality rates doubled in my hometown Woonsocket, Rhode Island from 2001 to 2005. Woonsocket has the second highest rate of infant death and child abuse in Rhode Island.
Child abuse is double other cities in R.I.
Still, in the fall of 2005 when my book about child abuse and domestic violence growing up in Woonsocket was banned at the Woonsocket Harris Public Library, there was no press coverage by the Woonsocket Call or local or national media.
Child abuse and domestic violence increase when people who tell their stories are silenced.
IT STOPS WITH ME: MEMOIR OF A CANNUCK GIRL speaks for the children who have no one to hear them.
"How did it get to the point where men and women are at war, and their children are the swords they wield against each other? It is not just about my family and my ancestry. I don't know when it started, but I do know where it is ending. It is stopping right here with me. I choose a different legacy for my children to pass generation to generation. I was not the first girl to be abused in my family. But I will be the first to say, c'est fini. No more. It stops here with me." Last paragraph from "It Stops with Me: Memoir of a Cannuck Girl" (2004).
Child abuse is double other cities in R.I.
Still, in the fall of 2005 when my book about child abuse and domestic violence growing up in Woonsocket was banned at the Woonsocket Harris Public Library, there was no press coverage by the Woonsocket Call or local or national media.
Child abuse and domestic violence increase when people who tell their stories are silenced.
IT STOPS WITH ME: MEMOIR OF A CANNUCK GIRL speaks for the children who have no one to hear them.
"How did it get to the point where men and women are at war, and their children are the swords they wield against each other? It is not just about my family and my ancestry. I don't know when it started, but I do know where it is ending. It is stopping right here with me. I choose a different legacy for my children to pass generation to generation. I was not the first girl to be abused in my family. But I will be the first to say, c'est fini. No more. It stops here with me." Last paragraph from "It Stops with Me: Memoir of a Cannuck Girl" (2004).
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