My heart weeps...

I am reading "Confessions of a Video Vixen", by Karrine Steffans, and my heart weeps for this girl. Sometimes it is just difficult to read this book. I feel it is just sad that many young women are trapped in a situation because they dont have the strength of mind to know that they dont have to deal with abuse. They have the power, to rise from any situation. They have the power to become whatever they want to be. The only thing that's keeping them from having these things, is themselves. But they dont know this. No one ever told them. And unless they free their minds, unless they give themselves permission to leave this situation... they remain trapped. But what worries me the most is, how many other young girls are receiving abuse right now, who dont know that they have the power to stop this abuse... If I was in that situation, would i be able to find the strength to leave? Do you know anyone in this situation? (Yes I'm talking to you who is reading this blog) Have you ever told them that they deserve more to life. That they are strong enough to survive, and have the right to live a better life? Not a life filled with expensive clothes, jewelery and other material things... but a right to live a better quality of life, a life where she is free, free to be independent, free to have an education, free to have a job, free to have unconditional love, free to fulfill their dreams...