a post on abolition, maybe?

I don’t want daughters. I don’t think I can handle it. One, I’m not one for tea parties and dolls. Two, there’s our world to consider. Our world sucks. It’s terrifying, really. And it may seem chauvinistic, but I don’t care; it would seem a guy has a better chance of surviving out there.


The most recent confirmation of that is a blog I’ve been reading, Flowerdust. The writer is Anne Jackson, self-proclaimed cupcake addict and storyteller.

Anne is currently studying human trafficking in Southeast Europe and Russia. If you don’t know what human trafficking is, it’s a modern-day term for slavery. Many of those suffering from this are young girls sold in to sex slavery.

This is horrible.

This is disgusting.

This is common.

This kills me. I can’t imagine the stories involved in this. There are so many that haven’t been told. Anne, and the many organizations working to end this have told a few of those stories, but you just can’t tell them all. How many of these girls have been kidnapped, sold, used and left to rot without anyone knowing who they are or caring what has happened to them? They go to their grave feeling lonely, unloved and filthy. No one will ever know who they were, or could have been.

This shouldn’t happen. I don’t want to raise kids in this world. I assume I will marry, and my wife will want children. I even want them, most of the time. But thinking about this makes me want to beg God for boys. Boys, I can raise to stay away from this. Girls get forced in. (I’m sure there are plenty of discrepancies there, but the majority of cases are as such.)

What can we do? I don’t know. I’ve found a few organizations that work to fight this sort of thing: International Justice Mission, Love146 and She Dances. And Anne will be posting more over the next few days about what we can do to help. Whatever it is, though, we have to do it. We can’t let something like this continue.

Now, normally, I wouldn’t ask you to do something I’m not already doing, but I just found out about this. I don’t know if I can give money, because I already give to other places. But maybe you can pick up where I leave off. I do, however, promise to give my time, and what effort I can to this cause. Please do the same.