The title of this article might come as a surprise to you. It doesn’t to me.
The sexual abuse of children was something that happened when dudes in vans kidnapped children. No one mentioned that you could be sexually abused in your own home. If you asked me as a kid if I was being abused, I would have said no, even as every definition of that word applied to me. There was no education, no awareness programs, and no discussion about sexual abuse anywhere in the public sphere, so I didn’t know until I met someone in my early twenties who talked about being the victim of sexual abuse.
This is why we have to talk, why we need awareness, and why we don’t let predators define what they are doing for kids. We determine appropriate and inappropriate behavior with proper words and honest conversations.
This is also why this site exists. To pay it forward to the people who showed me that I was an abused child.
And why you should read the article below.
https://www.cape-au.com/blog/not-all-children-realise-they-are-being-abused