Link – Managing Your Mental Health During the Holidays

Consider how often a child is not believed because the family friend or member “doesn’t seem like the type?”

That’s familial grooming. That is getting the family to see you as one thing when you are targeting a child in that family, thereby not only giving you access to the child but creating doubt about whether their own child is telling the truth. It also doesn’t help that so many of us think we know what a predator looks like, and are so easily fooled: