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What Stops Children from Reporting Grooming: Understanding Barriers to Disclosure

Learn why children and teens often don’t report grooming, the manipulative tactics abusers use, and how caregivers can create safe, supportive environments to help survivors speak up and heal.

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What is Online Grooming? Understanding Grooming in the Digital Age

Online grooming is the process of building trust with a child or teen online for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Learn how predators operate on digital platforms, warning signs to look for, and how parents can protect and support their children.

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Child Sexual Abuse – Turning Statistics into Action and Protecting Kids

Like many of you, the stats of sexual abuse had never sunk in before all my loved ones shared their experiences, but then and now, these figures scream at me. I can no longer look the other way. I can’t discount the discomfort by saying the research must be wrong or that the research responses must have come from somewhere else and someone else.

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Protecting Kids: Navigating a Hypersexualized World and Reducing Pornography Exposure

There is no quick fix that ensures your child will not purposely consume pornography, but a parent can do specific things that will reduce this risk. It is nearly impossible for a parent to prevent all accidental exposure to pornography. Still, again, a parent can do specific things that will reduce the volume of accidental exposures and their impact.

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Breaking the Link Between Child Sexual Abuse and Incarceration: A Path to Healing

Research reveals a striking pattern among incarcerated women: up to 66% report experiencing childhood sexual abuse, more than double the rate found in the general female population (31%). While multiple factors contribute to incarceration, this dramatic statistical disparity demands attention.

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Why Parents Don’t See Child Sexual Abuse as a Problem—And How Proximity Can Fix It

In my work addressing child sexual abuse, I see this phenomenon daily. Despite extensive research highlighting that child sexual abuse is a significant issue in every community, many parents and caregivers dismiss it as a distant problem, believing it happens to someone else, somewhere else. Read more.

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Common Symptoms Experienced by Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Childhood sexual abuse can have long-lasting debilitating effects throughout the life of a survivor. The impacts of sexual trauma are profound and far-reaching, affecting every aspect of an individual's life—physically, psychologically, cognitively, and socially. But why is this so?

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Statute of Limitations on Sexual Abuse

In our work with individuals who were sexually abused, they often discuss the burden that comes with weighing difficult questions about when to come forward with details of the abuse they experienced. They wonder if they should take legal action or if that is even an option when the abuse occurred many years in the past.

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Effects of Child Sexual Abuse

As a clinician on the Saprea Clinical Intake team, I am often the first point of contact for anyone seeking one of our services. This gives me the opportunity to talk to many survivors of child sexual abuse. I’m often asked about specific effects of sexual abuse that the women I talk to are experiencing.

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Male Sexual Abuse

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 13 boys in the US experience sexual abuse at some time in their childhood. And the American National Center for PTSD states that at least 1 in 10 men in our country will experience sexual assault at some point in their life. This means that sexual trauma can occur beyond childhood.

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What to do if a Sex Offender Moves to Your Neighborhood?

You do everything you can to ensure that your kids are safe. But what do you do if a registered sex offender moves into your neighborhood? You may feel like you suddenly don’t have control over your child’s safety. A potential threat has come and you don’t know what to do. Here are some tips for managing what can feel like an overwhelming situation.

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Before Letting Your Child Have a Sleepover

Going to a sleepover may raise the risk for a child to be sexually abused. Educated parents are the best ones to decide if a sleepover is appropriate for their child. You can eliminate the risk by not allowing a sleepover. Or, if you choose to have sleepovers, there are some things you should think through.

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