Sexual Abuse: How to protect your kid.   by Tapan Sarkar

We as a society do not like to go deep inside a problem to find root cause. We love to brush the problem away out of sight, and to pretend in a way that no such problem ever existed.

When we see or read about children who are being sexually abused or even getting killed by abnormal people, otherwise perfectly normal rascals and criminals our brain cells get excited for a couple of minutes and then we go back and get busy with our list of 'important' day to day tasks. As an educated person of a civil society the urge to think, the urge to go into deeper analysis of the problem never bother us until a day when -God Save Us--it hits us hard on our own face.

But even a little analysis will help us to see a pattern in the madness. And once the pattern is understood it will be easy to devise a way-out of this menace.

These maniacs' prime targets are small children who know almost nothing about their own body, let alone sexuality and sexual exploitation. Being small, they are no match to their perpetrators. But a little -yes even a little awareness can make a lot of difference--awareness about their own body or little sex education can play a vital role to save the life of the kid or help to avoid the trauma that a sexually exploited child goes through.

But world over sexual education is a neglected and even feared subject. No it is not feared by kids. Instead parents are afraid and embarrassed to teach their kids about sex. A small child depends on parents for all his needs and necessities and most parents go out of their way to fulfill their kid's requirements. But when it comes to sex education - 'No baby, you are on your own: no body is going to teach you about sex'--it's a strict no no... even if the lack of sex education puts the kid's life at risk.

Do not turn your face from the realities, it is not only female child who are subjected to sexual abuse, small boys are also equally at risk.

As a parent you can take some easy steps to save your kid from the risk of being sexually exploited. These are simple and easy precautionary steps and will help you to save your kid from the risk of being abused.

Do not leave your kid with an unknown person. If you need to avail service of a babysitter, get detailed background check done before leaving your kid. Unconditional trust can prove to be the most dangerous thing here.

Try to make a very friendly relationship with your child. And be very approachable so that if your kid experiences anything abnormal in anybody's behavior he can communicate it to you.

Teach your kid basic things about human body. Tell him about dignity of human body and that no body has right to touch his private parts intentionally. Help him to learn about the difference between good un-intentional touch and bad touch with immoral intentions.

Depending on your child's age give him age-appropriate sexual education. Sex education helps the child to understand his own body in a better way, and this understanding can play vital role for his safety.

Do not get nervous thinking about your kid's well being; take the above simple and solid steps to keep the evil of sexual abuse away from your kid.

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