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  • How to Become a Protective Parent
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  • Statistics about Sexual Abuse
    How prevalent is childhood sexual abuse? Should you be concerned about your child being at risk?
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  • Statistics about Sex Offenders
    What kinds of information do you know about sex offenders? How safe is your neighborhood? How many sex offenders live near you and your children?
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  • Kathy's Forum Comments
    Check here for topics, comments, and feedback from Kathy Broady, a licensed therapist that has specialized in sexual abuse issues for over 20 years.
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  • Technical Difficulties
    If you are experiencing any kind of technical difficulty, please post your question, comment, or concern here.
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  • Tell Your Story
    What happened? What would you like to say about your life and history? How did you get here? Who else can you tell? It’s not easy to find people that will listen, understand, and not judge you.
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  • Kathy's Comments
    Check here for topics, comments, and feedback from Kathy Broady, a licensed therapist that has specialized in sexual abuse issues for over 20 years.
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  • My Child's Emotional Response
    As the non-offending parent, you will likely see a great deal of pain, anger, shame, guilt, isolation, drops in self esteem, etc from your child in response to having been abused. What are you seeing? How is your child handling this situation?
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  • Complicated Relationships for My Child
    How have family relationships changed for your child? How have school and friendships changed for your child? You can discuss your concerns here.
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  • What Do I Do When My Child Does This…???!
    Children often express big feelings through their behavior. When you see your child doing this, what do you do? How do you handle difficult incidents? How do you discipline a child that is acting out their pain and anger at being abused?
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  • I’m Full of Feelings Too!!!
    Knowing that your child was sexually abused is a highly upsetting and painful situation. Do you feel upset? Heart broken? Depressed? Anxious? Guilty? Ashamed? Scared? Responsible? Stupid? Tricked? Betrayed? As a tending parent, it is extremely important t
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  • Now My Family is in Crisis
    Dealing with such an intense family crisis causes intense stress for the non-offending parents. How are you handling it? What is this situation doing to you? How is it affecting you? Your job? Your relationships? Your finances? How do you handle all this
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  • They Don’t Believe Us!
    Not being believed is a difficult but common experience for survivors of sexual abuse. If you or your child experienced this, what impact has it had? How have you struggled with this? Did you have trouble believing it? What rifts have been created between
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  • This Makes Me Remember
    For some parents, watching their child struggle with abuse sets off their own trauma memories and unresolved abuse issues. Are you struggling with a resurgence of, or a new awareness of, your own abuse memories? You need help for yourself as well. Be sure
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  • Facts vs. Myths
    Prevention of childhood sexual abuse involves learning the facts, vs. the myths. Be informed, be educated, and be aware. Predators are taking advantage of people just not knowing what to expect. When it comes to preventing sexual abuse, ignorance is not b
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  • No More of THAT!
    Hindsight is 20/20. When you look back at the events that happened before your child disclosed about being abused, were there any hints that you missed? Were there any signs or symptoms that you can see now, but you didn’t see then? Do you know what to
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  • Detect to Protect
    A big part of safety and prevention of sexual abuse involves recognizing the grooming behaviors as early as possible. This area discusses behaviors that sex offenders do to groom children – to test the children, to see just how far they can go, bit by b
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  • Recognizing Sexual Abuse
    Do you need tips for how to recognize sexual abuse? Do you suspect that your child has been abused in more ways than what has been told so far? Discuss your concerns here.
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  • Reporting Sexual Abuse
    If you suspect any child has been abused, it is important to report this to the authorities immediately. How did you feel when the abuse your child experienced was reported? What if you suspect additional abuse issues than what has already been reported?
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  • Fury at the Offender
    Anger at the offender is often so huge, it deserves its own category. What do you wish you could say to the offender? How are you handling your anger? How is it coming out? Are you angry at the right people?
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  • I Know the Offender…
    When the offender is someone you know and/or cared about, a great deal of conflict can occur. How do you handle life when the offender is a family member? What if the offender lives with you? Now what? How do you feel about your offender-loved one?
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  • When the Offender is a Child
    Some sexual offenders are children. It is particularly complicated and conflicting when one child abuses another child. What are your thoughts, and experiences in this area? What if your own child abused your other child? What if your child was abused by
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  • Complications Before Court
    Many parents feel anxious, angry, fearful, upset about going to court. What do you need to talk about in order to feel more emotionally prepared to go? What are you doing to be ready?
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  • My Court Experience
    What happened? What are your thoughts and feelings about your court experience? Were you pleased with the outcome? Why or why not?
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  • After Court
    Now that court is over, how are things? What’s different? What is the same? How has the court outcome affected your life, and affected your child’s life?
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  • Long-term Treatment and Therapy
    What is involved with the treatment of childhood sexual abuse? How long will your child need therapy and counseling? What are normal treatment issues?
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  • Long term effects
    Managing the short-term crisis is one thing. Looking at your healing journeys that span over time are totally different issues. What can I expect in years to come? What can I do to prepare for this? How can I minimize the long term consequences of childho
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