Postby Mangafanatic » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:42 pm
There's a deeper reason for this. I can guarantee it. I suggest that if you really are serious about your relationship that you sit down with your girlfriend's mother and ask her to explain her thoughts to you. Perhaps she thinks you each have issues you need to work through before getting into a serious relationship. Perhaps she thinks the two of you being together might cause you to compromise yourselves because you're in a position yet to maturely handle everything? Naturally, I don't know much of anything about the situation, but I bet that if you have a long talk with her mom, you'd figure a lot of things out.
Every year in Uganda, innumerable children simply. . . disappear. These children all stolen under the cover of darkness from their homes and impressed into the guerilla armies of the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army]. In the deserts of Uganda, they are forced to witness the mindless slaughter of other children until they themselves can do nothing but kill.
Kill. These children, generally ranging from ages 5-12, are brainwashed into murdering in the name of the resistance and into stealing other children from their beds to suffer the same fate.
Because of this genocide of innocence, hundred and hundreds of children live every night sleeping in public places miles from their homes, because they know that if the do not-- they will disappear. They will become just another number in this genocide to which the international community has chosen to turn a blind eye. They will become, in affect, invisible-- Invisible Children.
But there are those who are trying to fight against this slaughter of Uganda's children. They fight to protect these "invisible children." Please, help them help a country full of children who know nothing by fear. Help save the innocence. For more information concerning how you can help and how you can get an incredible video about this horrific reality,
visit the Invisible Children home page.