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‘No Secret’ Families Help Protect Children from Sexual Abuse

Can you give your child opportunities to recognize warning signs and sense with their intuition that something may be wrong? Can you help your child identify a list of safe adults to whom they could turn and tell?

Parents need to prepare children for the mental games of secrecy and grooming that characterize most childhood sexual abuse. This article explains how “No Secret” Families help protect children from sexual abuse:

http://www.phillyvoice.com/no-secret-families-help-protect-children-from-sexual-abuse/

‘No Secret’ Families Help Protect Children from Sexual Abuse
November 28, 2017
By: Amy Wright Glenn
PhillyVoice Contributor

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