Whenever the evening news brings the story of a kidnapped child or teen, the terrifying prospect of abduction fills the minds of parents across the country. But it's important to remember that the majority of children will pass through childhood safely. One of the challenges of being a parent is to teach your children to be cautious without filling them with too much fear or anxiety. This book will guide you through many prevention processes and allow you to understand the thoughts of serial predators.
This book will also disclose how to evaluate and choose a sitter for your kids. Arranging childcare can be a daunting task. There are many decisions you must make in selecting someone to care for your baby. Of course, you want to pick the best environment and caregiver for your child. The best way to do that is to know what your options are before you begins.
The words abduction and, sexual exploitation evokes a number of reactions and feelings. Perhaps one of the most devastating is silence – our inability or unwillingness as a society to speak about this horrific problem. That same silence may also impact a child who has been sexually exploited. Children may be frightened or intimidated into not telling. They may feel they won’t be believed or what happened is their fault. All of these feelings may cause them to hide their pain. Look and listen to small cues and clues that something may be troubling your children because children are not always comfortable disclosing disturbing events or feelings.
Although some dangers do exist, there are steps that you can take to lessen the chances that your child will be abducted. Approximately 2,200 missing-children reports are filed each day. All of these cases might be solved more easily if parents were able to provide a few key pieces of information about their children, like: height, weight, eye color, and a clear recent photo The Reality of Child Abductions The circumstances surrounding child abduction are often quite different from the way they are portrayed in TV shows and movies. The majority of children who are reported missing have run away, or there has been a misunderstanding with their parents about where they were supposed to be.
Most the kids and teens that are truly abducted, a family member or an acquaintance takes the majority of them; strangers take 28% of kids. Almost all children kidnapped by strangers are taken by men, and about two thirds of stranger abductions involve female children. Most abducted children are in their teens.
If you don't talk to your child about abductions, someone less desirable will. This year thousands of children will learn the reality of stranger abduction first hand. The fortunate ones will just be molested and later released. Many others will be kept or murdered. The reality is, there are tens of thousands of known abductors and molesters out there. There are about 1.8 million missing children in the United States, and approximately 20,000 to 30,000 will never see their parents again.
The only chance a child has against them is a parent’s willingness to sit down and talk about it. Obviously, this isn't an easy subject. But if you approach it as safety rules, like a fire drop and roll drill, it doesn't have to be frightening. Please don't leave your children out there in the dark unprotected. Talk to them. Play roles with your children to teach them how to respond. If properly prepared, they can automatically take the right action when in danger. It is important to maintain practice sessions, as children grow older. For example, a nine year-old may forget or ignore what he or she knew at age seven.
There’s nothing more gratifying than seeing a predator brought to justice, and knowing that they’re going to throw away the key on him or her. Jay Gilliland. Gilliland is a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who sexually exploited his own daughter. He was found guilty of 317 counts of child molestation and child abuse, and was just sentenced to 6,242 years behind bars. That shows how serious the justice system is about keeping these animals away from our kids.
But law enforcement isn’t the first line of defense against these sick people who prey on innocent children. We are. As parents, it’s our duty to keep our kids - all kids - away from this kind of danger. That’s why you can’t be shy about checking out who’s in contact with your children and what’s in their past. Too often, predators slip through the cracks and turn up in your neighborhood. There are some 100,000 predators roaming under the radar.
Criminals, who are supposed to be registered, but aren’t. And all too often, it’s tough to keep track of the ones who are registered. Child Safety and Protection Act are aimed at dealing with both problems, but making failure to register a federal offense, and by creating a coordinated, easy to use national sex offender registry.
As a family project make an identification box for each family member. Each family member should use a separate shoebox. In each shoebox place one family member’s fingerprints, extra dental X-rays and prints as obtained from the dentist, a recent picture, and the DNA sample in separate brown envelopes. Store the box at room temperature in a dry place away from heat. The DNA sample should be good for up to six or seven years.
While there are sexual predators who are organized and whose activities cause public ire, it is the millions of sexual predators global whose day-to-day actions and steadfast determination is a far greater threat to the safety of our children. Knowing this and knowing that we cannot be with our children every moment of every day it is essential that we teach them how to recognize and evade the lures used for generations by sexual predators of every kind.
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