Sexual Abuse.
Do You Teach Your Kids Body Safety? 10 Things Every Child Should Know. By: Natasha Daniels We teach our young children all sorts of ways to keep themselves safe. We teach them to watch the hot stove, we teach them to look both ways before they cross the street, but more often than not – body safety is not taught until much older – until sometimes…it is too late. Do you teach your kids body safety? What are you waiting for? Here are 10 things every kids should know! We cannot always prevent our children from being sexually abused, but arming our child with knowledge is a good preventative measure. Research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that approximately 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 4 girls are sexually abused before the age of 18. You want to hear something even scarier? According to the US Department of Justice (nsopw.org) only 10% of perpetrators were strangers to the child and 23% of the perpetrators were children themselves! These statis...