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Protecting Your Child from Sexual Abuse--2nd Edition: What You Need to Know to Keep Your Kids Safe
A guide that empowers and equips parents with the knowledge and strategies to protect their children.
Sexual violence against our children is a real and everyday danger. Protecting them from the threat of sex predators is one of our top concerns and fears—for both parents and educators—as we send our sons and daughters off to school and play. Unfortunately, not many of us know the right way—or even how—to think about and address such a sensitive topic.
Protecting Your Child From Sexual Abuse empowers parents by providing much needed knowledge about a subject that is hard for many to discuss, much less take action on. Seeking both to present the right information as well as dispel misconceptions based on unfounded fears, this guide presents comprehensive research and evidence in an accessible way, equipping guardians with practical solutions, concrete tools, and tangible skills designed to keep kids of all ages—from child to tween to teen—safe from sex crimes.
Learn about the realities of child sex offenders, how online registries function, what threats and risks exist online, what to do if you suspect abuse, and how to develop open and honest communication with your children on these dangers. With easily digestible facts and figures, highlighted key points, and discussion group questions, Protecting Your Child From Sexual Abuse is a necessary guide for any parenting or community group to begin the conversation—and develop sexual violence prevention strategies in their communities that will make a difference.
Sexual violence against our children is a real and everyday danger. Protecting them from the threat of sex predators is one of our top concerns and fears—for both parents and educators—as we send our sons and daughters off to school and play. Unfortunately, not many of us know the right way—or even how—to think about and address such a sensitive topic.
Protecting Your Child From Sexual Abuse empowers parents by providing much needed knowledge about a subject that is hard for many to discuss, much less take action on. Seeking both to present the right information as well as dispel misconceptions based on unfounded fears, this guide presents comprehensive research and evidence in an accessible way, equipping guardians with practical solutions, concrete tools, and tangible skills designed to keep kids of all ages—from child to tween to teen—safe from sex crimes.
Learn about the realities of child sex offenders, how online registries function, what threats and risks exist online, what to do if you suspect abuse, and how to develop open and honest communication with your children on these dangers. With easily digestible facts and figures, highlighted key points, and discussion group questions, Protecting Your Child From Sexual Abuse is a necessary guide for any parenting or community group to begin the conversation—and develop sexual violence prevention strategies in their communities that will make a difference.
200 pages, Paperback
Published July 7, 2020
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July 3, 2025
Having to protect your children from sexual abuse is a terrifying idea. How can you protect them from something that is so ingrained in our society? Or when there are so many ways they can be negatively influenced outside of your home and control?
I thought this book tackled these questions in a very digestible way. They discussed really crucial points that I wish more adults in my life would have considered when I was growing up. For instance, the fact that abuse from “stranger danger” is way less likely to occur compared to someone who knows and has a preexisting relationship with your child. They discuss how a child who knows how to speak about their body and body parts is far less likely to become a victim of sexual abuse because that confidence and understanding scares predators away. How important it is to have a lifelong conversation with your children about consent, their bodies, and sex. They talk about how to talk to toddlers, tweens, teens, and college-aged kids. How boys and men need to be protected too, and raised in a way where they know that kind of behavior isn’t acceptable.
I could go on and on. They provide conversation examples, resources, and I felt like their inclusion of the subject of technology, apps, games, and the overall use of the internet was very relevant to the challenges parents have to face nowadays.
This book broke my heart and gave me hope at the same time. Being aware of the ways that children and young adults are targeted is so important. We need to be willing to admit that we should know and learn more about the subject that no one wants to talk about in order to protect our children and our communities. I think this book was split up in a way that was easy to read, and it was a good balance of acknowledging the facts of the matter and balancing that with the emotional response that comes from the fear of our children becoming victims.
This book made me feel seen for having those fears without stoking the fires of any new anxieties. This is the world we live in, and I’d recommend this book to anyone who is bringing a life into it.
I thought this book tackled these questions in a very digestible way. They discussed really crucial points that I wish more adults in my life would have considered when I was growing up. For instance, the fact that abuse from “stranger danger” is way less likely to occur compared to someone who knows and has a preexisting relationship with your child. They discuss how a child who knows how to speak about their body and body parts is far less likely to become a victim of sexual abuse because that confidence and understanding scares predators away. How important it is to have a lifelong conversation with your children about consent, their bodies, and sex. They talk about how to talk to toddlers, tweens, teens, and college-aged kids. How boys and men need to be protected too, and raised in a way where they know that kind of behavior isn’t acceptable.
I could go on and on. They provide conversation examples, resources, and I felt like their inclusion of the subject of technology, apps, games, and the overall use of the internet was very relevant to the challenges parents have to face nowadays.
This book broke my heart and gave me hope at the same time. Being aware of the ways that children and young adults are targeted is so important. We need to be willing to admit that we should know and learn more about the subject that no one wants to talk about in order to protect our children and our communities. I think this book was split up in a way that was easy to read, and it was a good balance of acknowledging the facts of the matter and balancing that with the emotional response that comes from the fear of our children becoming victims.
This book made me feel seen for having those fears without stoking the fires of any new anxieties. This is the world we live in, and I’d recommend this book to anyone who is bringing a life into it.
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