If you're a mom in a middle class neighborhood with good schools and green manicured lawns, you probably don't have great fear your child will turn to prostitution or be living on the streets. And you may have read the past 3 posts and feel pretty confident in your ability to protect your children but there is more at stake than our kids. What do we know about the cycle of abuse? Abused children are more prone to alcoholism, depression, suicidal behavior, prostitution, pornography, …
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Empowering Parents to Prevent Abuse pt. 1
Disclaimer: This is a four part series on the blog covering issues involved in childhood sexual abuse and especially focuses on areas of prevention in your home. Please know this is a sensitive subject for many but I've felt moved to write this series over the next 4 days. This is not meant to inspire fear or panic in parents but to help inform them of steps they can take with and for their children to better protect them from this ever being part of their story. We sat in a circle. there were …