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Author: Feather Berkower

  • Talking with Children, Teens and Caregivers about Consent

    Learning about boundaries and consent is a process that takes place over many years. By starting the conversation early, your children have more time to internalize body-safety rules and practice setting boundaries. And likewise, by talking with caregivers and family members about boundaries, you can model for your child, and the adults in their lives,…

  • Winning Gold

    I find it unacceptable that USA Gymnastics, the sole national governing body for gymnastics in the US with 3,000 gyms, regularly fails to report allegations of child sexual abuse to authorities. This is yet another example of reckless policy making, individual irresponsibility, and institutional failure on behalf of children. Everything we know about child sexual…

  • Back to School 2016

    This is your annual reminder to invite your day care or school personnel onto your prevention team by discussing your children’s body-safety rules with teachers, paraprofessionals, administration, and classroom volunteers.  Download the free Parenting Safe Children Back-to-School Screening Packet and have a conversation with your day care or school staff. The packet is also useful…

  • Bathroom Panic

    I’ve been asked many questions about transgender men and women using bathrooms and parental concerns about sexual abuse. The questions themselves sometime imply that transgender people are more likely to abuse and this reminds me of a similar myth that is still perpetuated about Gay men. Fact Check: Gender identity and same sexual orientation are…

  • Three Questions Every Parent Should Ask This Summer!

    It’s never too late to talk with your camp or summer program director about child sexual abuse prevention. Here are the three must-ask questions:1.  Beyond background checks, what is the screening process for new hires? Look for camps & programs that have a three-part staff interview process:  Background checks, personal interviews, and reference checks. Background…

  • Prevention or Discrimination?

      I’ve been asked a lot of questions lately about transgender men and women using bathrooms and parental concerns about sexual abuse. North Carolina’s House Bill 2 law and similar legislation ban people from using public bathrooms that do not correspond with their biological sex. Proponents of such legislation argue that it’s important because men might…