Has anybody else been sent this piece of fundraising material from NSPCC?
Its a booklet called Baby Names. Looks innocent but when you look inside it is a series of case histories of children killed by their parents. I found it very shocking and unpleasant but it also made really angry.
Why? Because it was unsolicited,had no warning on the cover about what it might contain (there was a covering letter but this assumed that, as I did, you would look at the book first). It could have been sent to someone in a very vulnerable position e.g. someone with PND, someone who had just lost a child as a result of an accident.
I know that terrible things happen to children and would usually be happy to support organisations that are doing something to prevent it but this piece of fundraising material just made me feel really very cross. It is designed to shock but tells me almost nothing about what positive things NSPCC does.
I feel that sometimes charities are going too far in their efforts to raise money. It has certainly had the opposite effect on me - I wrote to them to complain.
Has anyone else had it? What did you think? I have complianed to NSPCC so would be interested to know if I am in a minority of one or whther others feel the same.