Posted in Honor, crime, culture, death, divorce, emotions, family, fathers, husband, marriage, murder, news, parenting, relationships, violence, tagged family, death, father, respect, marriage, daughter, news, anger, divorce, Georgia, parenting, value, failure, honor killing, Pakistani, unhappy, cultural, Chicago, embarassment on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Once again the term an honor killing, has hit the news. A Pakistani father, Chaudhry Rashid living in Georgia, who had arranged a marriage for his 25 year old daughter Sandeela Kanwal, is being accused of killing her when she expressed that she no longer wished to be married to the man (who she had not seen [...]
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Posted in Faith, Family Time, Fear, Heart, Remembering, commitment, courage, crime, emotions, health, help, inspiration, joy, life, loneliness, loss, medical, mental and physical health, mother, news, pain and misery, resilient, sadness, safety, self doubt, sick and tired, stress, success, support, trauma, violence, well-being, tagged healing, depression, children, challenges, life, father, suicide, birth, health, destruction, relationships, mother, freedom, joy, well-being, neglect, personal, survival, prison, therapy, abuse, 24 years, psychiatry, victimized, oppression, human spirit, resilience, negativity, past, obstacles, Elizabeth Fritzl, Austrian, overcoming, devastation, fearlessly, fully, professional help, victory, determination on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
For those of you who have been depressed, despondent, abused, neglected, suicidal, victimized or just oppressed; know this, the human spirit is subject to change at any moment…it is resilient. The absolutely amazing thing about going through any of those difficulties in life, is that it has the potential of either destroying a person, [...]
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Posted in Education, baby, children, crime, death, family, grandchildren, health, help, home, hospital, kids, law enforcement, medical, mental and physical health, mother, news, pain and misery, parenting, power, pregnancy, sadness, safety, school, tagged babies, grandchildren, father, safety, trauma, authorities, daughter, mother, news, crime, abuse, horror, basement, Austria, 24 years, furnace, Psychology, psychiatry, medical, humanity on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
By now, most of you have probably heard about the derranged daddy who destroyed the lives of at least 8 people. They lived in Austria. He locked his 18 year old daughter in his specially designed, tiny basement for 24 years. He abused her; impregnating her 7 times. One of the babies died soon after [...]
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Posted in bride, children, help, husband, law enforcement, legal, parenting, trauma, violence, tagged father, divorce, lawyer, America, culture, forced marriage, human rights organizations, Yemen, 8 year old girl, abused, dowry, emotional wounds, Human Rights Watch Organization on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Ok…i can’t do it. I can’t read the news i just read and keep quiet. I was made aware of a young 8 year old girl who was forced to wed in Yemen. She was forced to become a bride to a 30 year old man, by her father.
The young girl’s name is Nojoud Nasser. Her [...]
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Posted in Frustration, Heart, Passing Away, baby, children, death, grandchildren, grief, health, husband, kids, loss, miracles, mother, tagged child, daughter, death, father, grieving, legal, military, mother, sacrifice, support, viable sperm, will on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
This past two weeks has been rough on a young widow. Her husband was killed in Irag on March 31. Kynesha Dhanoolal, the widow, wanted to save his sperm as she and her husband had talked often, of having children together. She wants to be the mother of his children.
It appears that a [...]
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I just have read the news about the father who threw his 4 children, under the age 0f three, from a bridge in Alabama. Then, he said he didn’t throw them; he claimed that two women took them away in a van.
Sad, but he really did throw them off of the bridge to [...]
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Today’s news of the passing away of George Osmond, father of the Osmond brothers and their sister Marie made me sad. Growing up through the 70’s and 80’s i feel sort of bonded to the Osmond family. I watched them over those years and always felt somewhat invested in their lives. What girl growing up at [...]
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Posted in cancer, tagged Billy Graham, biological, blood cancers, California, Christian, danger, death, experience, father, grandchildren, humor, life, lukemia, obedience, prayer, puzzle pieces on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
I don’t know about you, but i have a hard time obeying someone just for the sake of obeying. I have to be able to think a thing through and find the reason for something. I don’t like to blindly obey; that requires alot of trust.
As you can imagine…as a child…that was not [...]
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