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It's Children's Month at HAVEN of Mercy! We hope to provide helpful resources for child abuse, ways to talk to your children about abuse, prevention and advocacy education.
"There are many voices competing to tell our children what they are worth, and most of them would teach to define their value outside of themselves. By what they can do or what they wear or how they look or who their friends are. To live dependent on what others say about them and diminished by trauma they endure or mistakes they make. I believe one of the most important things we can do is stand against these voices that scream harmful messages into the ears of our little ones and instead whisper the truth to them over and over and over again." -Rachael Denhollander
What Is A Little Girl Worth and What Is A Little Boy Worth are excellent children's books!
How much, how much are you worth, precious child?
How much is a little child worth?
Your worth cannot fade; it will not go away;
It is not changed a bit by what happens today.
No one and nothing can make you worth less.
Just what is your value? You don't have to guess.
Your value is not found in what you can do
Or the things you accomplish and win.
It is found in how you were made, precious child-
Created and cherished by Him.

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