As an early childhood educator and a true child-loving person, just thinking of an innocent and vulnerable child becoming a sexually transmitted disease and an abnormal fantasy of the elderly is enough to turn my stomach. When I started talking to educators about child sexual abuse prevention, I heard a similar but shocking and shocking response, which sounded like "this is the work of parents." When I immediately started thinking about children in foster care systems who didn't even have parents, my heart was deeper than the ocean. Who can access the people in the system who are silently violated in closed doors?
Foster children are 10 times more likely to be sexually abused than children who live with their biological parents. Therefore, if the child is completely educated by the work of the parents to prevent these children from being forgotten in the process, in the system they have been forgotten. Or are those children who grow up in a single-parent family and live with their partner? These children are at the highest risk because they are 20 times more likely to be victims of sexual abuse than those living with biological parents. Or the worst thing is that parents have never done the proper equipment and training in child abuse prevention, so is this not their to-do list? The sole responsibility of parents is to educate their children to prevent child abuse, which is also the work of educators.
As educators, our job is to provide a support system for the children's families entrusted with management, which involves the social and emotional and intellectual development of the school as well as children, and if the child is sexually abused it may be interrupted especially if it lasts for a long time. Consider a child who is sexually abused by a father. "I was broken. I am just a girl hiding under the sheets. You took all my innocence and let me die." Sadly, the long-term effects of abuse led to the suicide of teenagers at the age of 17. When we educate everything except child sexual abuse prevention, how do we call ourselves educators? This topic is rarely discussed in the classroom, but it affects many children. As of the age of 18, one in four girls and one in six boys were sexually abused. Currently, there are 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the United States. How can we sit down and let the children we care about continue to be abused?
We take care of our children for more than 40 hours a week. Whether we are willing to believe that children in our school have been sexually abused, are currently sexually abused or may be sexually abused. Why not teach something that can save your child's life, metaphor and literal meaning, because the suicide rate of victims of sexual abuse is higher?
At Eileen Merlin, she should enjoy the innocence of childhood hopscotch, enjoy a playground trip, build a lifelong friendship, and enjoy an overnight stay combined with a late night girl conversation, she is not. During the overnight stay of friends, her life has undergone earth-shaking changes. A friend of a family member began sexual abuse of her and continued for many years. The exact words he encountered for the first time are always engraved in her memory. "This is our little secret. If you tell anyone, no one will believe you." So she kept the secret until she was 13 years old. Unfortunately, after the abuse of this particular person ended, others began sexually abusing her for many years. What if I teach child abuse at Irene School? Will Irene insist on this secret for a long time, and abuse continues? If you teach prevention like other exercises in schools such as fire drills, lock-in exercises, etc., Irene will know what to do after the first unforgettable and terrifying violations. Eileen Merlin was one of the few people who overcame what she did and began to perform tasks that authorize child abuse in schools. I believe that it is beneficial for parents to teach their children to abuse their children, but I also believe that the work of educators is also for children who have no parents and those who do not do anything with their parents. the reason.
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