This is a simple question, and the answer is not simple, but there is something that we can all do to help, and we can do it right now -- today. Before we go any further, let’s face up to the reality that we are, in fact, abusing our children -- or at least many of them. For many of our kids, about 288,000 of them to be more precise, the sad truth is that things are bad …and they are getting worse, a lot worse.