Breck Bednar, a 14-year-old boy who loved gaming, was groomed online and murdered in 2014. His mother, Lorin LaFave, was worried – would her pleas for help from police have been taken more seriously if he’d been a girl? It’s a legitimate question. We tend to think boys playing games online are just being boys,…
I’ve said it a few times in the last couple of weeks, but here’s a study that proves it. Getting people help early makes a huge difference in helping them not have serious problems later. What do we have to do to make sure there are resources available to youth and young adults? “The…
Last week, I linked to an article and discussed the importance of mental health care in UK primary schools. Today, I wanted to follow up on that with a couple of links to articles that talk about this same problem in the US, and the importance of getting help early. Adolescent Depression: Early Mental Health…
This statistic actually didn’t surprise me, because we already know that traffickers, like pedophiles, prey on vulnerable kids. Who is more vulnerable than kids who’ve already been sexually abused? Most disturbing, we found that boys who had experienced childhood sexual abuse were 8.2 times more likely to be exploited in human trafficking than boys without…
“A sharp jump in calls to a helpline about online sexual abuse has sparked an appeal for parents to discuss internet safety with children receiving smartphones, games consoles and tablet computers this Christmas. The NSPCC said there were 3,716 Childline counselling sessions about the issue in 2015/16 – a 24 per cent increase on the…
With all the attention on sexual abuse in the UK lately, this resource from iTV might be a good things to share with all of our readers in the UK. http://www.itv.com/loosewomen/helplines-loosewomen/helplines-for-survivors-of-childhood-sexual-abuse-rape-and-sexual-violence
