Posts by Keep Kids Safe
Starting the Recovery Process
How To Start Healing Each journey to healing is unique, but every person looking to recover from childhood sexual abuse faces a difficult path. You will be faced with shame, guilt and blame as you come to terms with past experiences. It is difficult, but not impossible. And Keep Kids Safe strives to provide the…
Read MoreWould You Take 20 Years Off Your Child’s Life?
Since the mid-nineties, scientists have been studying something that might be in every household. Children exposed to it suffer from a dramatically increased risk for seven out of ten leading causes of death. It can affect a child’s brain development, immune system, hormonal system and even the transcription of a child’s DNA. These effects occur both…
Read MoreWhat “Isn’t” Sexual Abuse?
If you are not exactly sure what sexual abuse is, you’re not alone. “Sexual abuse” is generally thought of as any behavior in which an adult engages a child for satisfaction of their own sexual needs. That includes looking, showing and touching, but it can also include showing a child inappropriate media, such as pornography.…
Read MorePower, Sexual Abuse & Vulnerability
When we talk about recovery from sexual abuse, we often talk about trauma caused when a child experiences an intense event that threatens or causes harm to his or her emotional and physical well-being. But one of the reasons why sexual abuse is so difficult to recover from – and takes so long to recover…
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