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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
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Folder Title: National Child Safety Month
Box: 79 (1986)
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THE OF THE LIMITED
OF
SEAL
National Child Safety Month, 1986
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The future of our Nation is in the hands of our children. The effects of the
loving support, the nurturing, and the instruction we give them now will be felt
and magnified a thousandfold in the generations to come.
Sadly, not all of our children live in a warm, loving family environment. In
every part of America there are children who are abused, exploited, or
abandoned, or who run away from an intolerable home situation to endure
worse depravity on the streets of our cities. Unfortunately, this mistreatment
may also be a legacy passed on to future generations.
I believe that the American people can accomplish miracles when they are
aware of the gravity of a situation. Fortunately, evidence that this awareness
is growing is available in community after community across the country, as
well as in the increasing involvement of voluntary associations and the
private sector in developing programs to protect our children. We are recog-
nizing anew our responsibility as neighbors and friends to extend a helping
hand to families and children in trouble. We are examining once again the
root causes of the various stresses that families face today, and we are
acquiring a stronger sense of society's task to shield families, and especially
children, from influences that undermine their sense of harmony, security, and
well-being. We have begun to see more clearly than ever the importance of
values to happiness and stability in the home. These are the best preventives
at our disposal.
Where problems in the family have exhausted its resources to cope, much can
be done now in the way of treatment and counseling. Communities can
contribute by working together to provide safe shelters for runaways and to
find adoptive parents for children in need of a loving home.
The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 293, has designated the month of
May 1986 as "Child Safety Month" and authorized and requested the Presi-
dent to issue a proclamation in observance of this event.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim the month of May 1986 as Child Safety Month. I
urge all Americans and governmental and private entities to observe this
month with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-eighth day
of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and tenth.
Ronald Reagan