Your Child Is in Danger! - How Can We Protect Our Children?

 

AFTER using children to satisfy  perverted lusts, after robbing them of their security and their sense of innocence, child molesters want something else from their victims -SILENCE.  To secure that silence, they use shame, secrecy, even outright terror. Children are thus robbed of their best weapon against abuse-the will to tell, to speak up and ask an adult for protection.

Tragically, adult society often unwittingly collaborates with child abusers. How so?  By refusing to be aware of their danger, by fostering a hush-hush attitude about it, by believing oft- repeated myths.  Ignorance, misinformation, and silence give safe haven to abusers, not their victims.

For example, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops concluded recently that it was a "general conspiracy of silence"  that allowed gross child abuse to persist among the Catholic clergy for decades.  Time magazine in reporting on the widespread plague of incest, also cited a "conspiracy of silence" as a factor that "only helps perpetuate the tragedy" in families .

However, Time noted that this conspiracy is crumbling at last. Why?  In a word, education. It is as Asia week magazine put it:  "All experts agree that the best defense against child abuse is public awareness." to defend their children, parents must understand the realities of the threat.  Don't be left in the dark by misconceptions that protect child abusers and not children. See box at end of blog. 

Next time" Your Child Is in Danger! - Educate Your Child

From the jw.org publications