Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Healthy child development, child sexual abuse, myths, boys, and Prevent Child Abuse Idaho in the news.

Roger Sherman the Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse Idaho and the Idaho Children's Trust Fund recently authored an Op-Ed in the Idaho Statesman - here - around the myths regarding boys and child sexual abuse. We hope you will take a look and let us know what you think. We have also pasted an excerpt below. 

"When we teach adults how to protect children from child sexual abuse, we start with "Learn the facts." Here's the first fact: The long term consequences for victims of child sexual abuse are nearly identical regardless of gender, according to a number of recent studies.
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