Fatherlessness in Minnesota: what is the answer?

I know a young African American man named Brandon who has aspirations like most other guys his age.  He enjoys going to the mall, hanging out with friends, fast cars, girls... pretty typical.  At one point he told me when he wanted to join the US Air Force and to become a fighter pilot.  But unlike many guys his age, his biological parents are out of his life.  Brandon's mother died of cancer about three years ago.  His dad might as well be dead, as he has been a recluse and living in a completely different state from his children.  Since the death of his mom, his nineteen-year-old sister has become a single parent mother; his three younger siblings have been adopted by his Aunt, and he was without a home. 

To the foster / adoptive parent who can't seem to find a way...

i don't have what it takes...
He has all that you need.
he hates everything that I do for him...
Jesus was and is hated, too.
i can't trust this child, he only lies to me...
He is not a man that He should lie.
i wasn't even fathered well...
God, your Papa, will make up for what you missed.
i have no more strength in my body to go on...
He sweat drops of blood.
will this vicious cycle ever end?
Jesus is alive and will make all things new!

Is there redemption for the sexually traumatized child?

The other day, I watched a video of a young girl named Beth who was six years old and confessed to molesting her little brother, killing baby birds & even without batting an eye recounted details that she wanted to kill her entire family.  I couldn't believe the horrific things that I had heard coming out of this girl's mouth.  Although at the only tender age of six, she had the conscience of a psycho path murderer who would most likely go on to carry out her proclamations if she didn't get treatment.

Human Trafficking: a brief

What is human trafficking?  Many people have probably heard this term tossed around, but how much do people really understand depth and scope of it.  Most people have in mind that slavery has for the most part been totally eradicated since the Thirteenth Amendment passed by the US congress in 1865.  However, there are actually twice as many slaves in earth now than during the entire four centuries of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade (Batstone, 6).  According to the organization Free the Slaves, there are currently twenty-seven million people are held captive worldwide in some form of slavery (http://www.freetheslaves.net/).